a. As cold as clay: usually of a dead body. (Cf. CLAY sb. 3, 4.)
1633. Costlie Whore, V. i. in Bullen, O. Pl., IV. 291. 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!
