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Clay

noun

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

Water soaked soil; soft wet earth. Synonym: 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. Synonyms: cadaver, corpse, remains, stiff. "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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"Clay" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the poor people are miserably bad, being mostly built of clay and wood, and threatening to fall down every moment. I hardly ventured to enter them, thinking that the interior was of a piece with the exterior, and was consequently astonished at seeing not only good beds, chairs, and tables, but very often elegant little altars ...

— A Woman's Journey Round the World • Ida Pfeiffer

... last, when his mother concluded with, 'She looks t' me fair stuck-oop, full o' toonish airs an' graces,' despite himself, he burst out: 'Ye're jest wastin' yer breath wi' that cackle. I reckon Miss Blencarn's o' a different clay to us folks.' Young Mrs. Forsyth tittered immoderately, and the next week it was rumoured about the valley that 'Tony Garstin was gone luny over t' ...

— Victorian Short Stories • Various

... country, coming again and again to the point whence so many were setting sail for it,—so many who would soon tread in Ninety-second Street,— losing, in this long series of years, some of the distinctive characteristics of an American, and at last dying and surrendering his clay to be a portion of the soil whence he could ...

— Our Old Home - A Series of English Sketches • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... inflection spoils the whole with doubt, One trivial letter ruins all, left out; A knot can change a felon into clay, A not will save him, spelt without the k; The smallest word has some unguarded spot, And danger lurks in ...

— Our Hundred Days in Europe • Oliver Wendell Holmes

... five hundred pounds of iron somewhere on Ragnarok. The north end of the plateau might be the best bet. As for the copper—I doubt that we'll ever find it. But there are seams of a bauxite-like clay in the Western hills—they're certain to contain aluminum to at least some extent. So we'll make ...

— Space Prison • Tom Godwin

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