ˈclay-cold, a.
As cold as clay: usually of a dead body. (Cf. clay n. 3, 4.)
| 1633 Costlie Whore v. i. in Bullen O. Pl. IV, Fetch their flying soules from heaven And breath them once more in their clay cold bodies? 1719 Young Busiris iii. i, Thy dying mother with her clay-cold hand Press'd mine. 1819 Shelley Cenci v. iii. 133 The clay-cold corpse upon the bier! 1885 W. B. Yeats in Dublin Univ. Rev. July, Quiet as the clay-cold dead. 1946 Dylan Thomas Deaths & Entrances 16 Though the brawl of the kiss has not occurred, On the clay cold mouth. |