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Meaning of clay

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  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}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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