malm

Earth containing a considerable quantity of chalk in fine particles; a calcareous loam, constituting in the southeastern counties of England a soil especially suited for the growth of hops; a kind of earth suitable for making the best quality of brick without any addition.

[capitalized] The name used in Germany, and frequently by geologists writing in English on the geology of that country, for the uppermost of the three divisions of the Jurassic series, all of which at an early day received English provincial names, namely Lias, Dogger, and Malm.

plural Bricks made of malm earth, or of the artificial malm prepared by mixing clay with chalk.

Composed of malm or calcareous loam: as, malm lands.

Soft; mellow.

Peaceable; quiet.

To handle with sticky hands; “paw.”

To mix (clay and chalk) for making bricks.

A kind of brick of a light brown or yellowish color, made of sand, clay, and chalk.

A soft, crumbly, chalky, grayish limestone.