clay

Noun

• 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
    

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

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

• water soaked soil; soft wet earth

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

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  cadaver , corpse , stiff , remains , Clay , Henry Clay , the Great Compromiser , Lucius Clay , Lucius DuBignon Clay , mud