1. A very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired 
2. Water soaked soil; soft wet earth
   - mud 
3. The dead body of a human being
   "honour comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay"
   - cadaver, corpse, stiff, remains

1. United States general who commanded United States forces in Europe from 1945 to 1949 and who oversaw the Berlin airlift (1897-1978)
   - Lucius Clay, Lucius DuBignon Clay 
2. United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852)
   - Henry Clay, the Great Compromiser

Derived forms: clays

Type of: body, dead body, dirt, full general, general, pol [N. Amer], political leader, politician, politico, pollie [Austral], polly [Austral], soil

Part of: brick, clayware, pottery, roofing tile, tile

Encyclopedia: Clay, Cassius Marcellus Clay, Henry Clay, James Clay, Alabama Clay Clay, AL Clay, Al Clay, New York Clay, WV Clay, West Virginia Clay, Michigan Clay, KY Clay, Kentucky Clay, Lucius Dubignon

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