WordWeb Online

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, California Clay, Henry and Bock and Company Cigar Factory Clay, Henry Clay, AL Clay Clay, Alabama Clay, Al Clay, James Clay, New York Clay, NY Clay, West Virginia Clay, WV Clay, Kentucky Clay, KY Clay, Michigan Clay, Lucius Dubignon