noun
- A very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired.
- Water soaked soil; soft wet earth.
- synonyms: mud
- United States general who commanded United States forces in Europe from 1945 to 1949 and who oversaw the Berlin airlift (1897-1978.
- synonyms: Lucius Clay, Lucius DuBignon Clay
- United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852.
- synonyms: Henry Clay, the Great Compromiser
- The dead body of a human being.
- usage: "the cadaver was intended for dissection"; "the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse"; "the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river"; "honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay"
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