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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 [informal], remains

1. United States general who commanded United States forces in Europe from 1945 to 1949 and who oversaw the Berlin airlift (1898-1978)
   - Lucius D. Clay, 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, informal], political leader, politician, politico [informal], pollie [Austral, informal], polly [Austral, informal], soil

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

Encyclopedia: Clay, NY