From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
clay
n 1: a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but
hard when fired
2: water soaked soil; soft wet earth [syn: mud, clay]
3: 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]
4: United States politician responsible for the Missouri
Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852) [syn:
Clay, Henry Clay, the Great Compromiser]
5: 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, clay,
remains]