a. Obs. or arch. [f. CLAY sb. + -EN4.] Of clay, as a material; clay-.

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1382.  Wyclif, Job iv. 19. These that dwellen cleyene housis.

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c. 1400.  Apol. Loll., 90. Þe heþun men had sex kyndis of similacris, cleyen, treen, brasun, stonun, silueren, and golden.

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1866.  F. A. Paley, Transl. Propertius, V. iii. For clayen gods a wooden shrine to hew.

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