flayed

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They spent four days of dancing with clayed faces, of solemn Homeric boasting, building up to war.

From Time Magazine Archive

We were kindly received by the administrator of the estate, an intelligent Biscayan, who showed us the whole process of making clayed sugar.

From Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America by Bryant, William Cullen

"Blessings on your black, clayed head!" breathed Rob under his breath.

From The Boy Scouts On The Range by Payson, Lieut. Howard

From experience, I notice that nothing is more congenial to the germination of the tea-nut than a good stiff blue, clayed soil.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.

Next a framework of twigs is placed over him, and he is hastily clayed up to keep the steam in, only his head remaining above ground.

From West African studies by Kingsley, Mary Henrietta