Pipe Clay

(n.) A plastic, unctuous clay of a grayish white color, -- used in making tobacco pipes and various kinds of earthenware, in scouring cloth, and in cleansing soldiers' equipments.

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achromatization, albification, blanching, bleach, bleaching, calcimine, decoloration, decolorization, decolorizing, discoloration, etiolation, fading, frosting, grizzling, lightening, madder bleach, market bleach, paling, pipe clay, silvering, whitewash, whitewashing, whiting