a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired

water soaked soil; soft wet earth

[ Syn: mud ]

United States general who commanded United States forces in Europe from 1945 to 1949 and who oversaw the Berlin airlift (1897-1978)

[ Syn: clay , lucius clay , lucius dubignon clay ]

United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852)

[ Syn: clay , henry clay , the great compromiser ]

the dead body of a human being; 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

[ Syn: cadaver , corpse , stiff , remains ]