Main entry: corpse, stiff, remains, clay, cadaver
Definition: 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
Main entry: Clay, the Great Compromiser, Henry Clay
Definition: United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852)
Main entry: Clay, Lucius Clay, Lucius DuBignon Clay
Definition: United States general who commanded United States forces in Europe from 1945 to 1949 and who oversaw the Berlin airlift (1897-1978)
Main entry: clay
Definition: a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired
Definition: water soaked soil; soft wet earth