adobe (adoba)

and a. [Le correctly adobi, colloquially shortened to dobie; and of inferior civilization. This is a desolate town of two you sand inhabitants dwelling in low dilapidated huts of the most common building material in the Andes - adobe , or sun-dried blocks of mud mingled with straw. J. Orton , Andes and Amazon, p. 46. 2. Clay or soil from which sun-dried bricks are made, or which is suitable for making them.3. In the quicksilver-mines of the Pacific coast, a brick made of the finer ores mixed with clay, for more convenient handling in the furnace. II. a. 1. Built or made of adobes or sun dried bricks.-2. Suitable for making sun dried bricks: as, an adobe soil.