| Clay, Henry Known as "the Great Compromiser." 1777-1852. American politician who pushed the Missouri Compromise through the U.S. House of Representatives (1820) in an effort to reconcile free and slave states. |
| Clay, Lucius DuBignon 1897-1978. American army officer who commanded U.S. forces in Germany (1945-1949) and oversaw the Berlin airlift (1948). |
Clay 1 (kl ), Cassius Marcellus 1810-1903. American abolitionist and public official who was minister to Russia (1861-1862 and 1863-1869). |
| Clay 2 (kl), Cassius Marcellus See Muhammad Ali. |
| clay (kl) n. 1. a. A fine-grained, firm earthy material that is plastic when wet and hardens when heated, consisting primarily of hydrated silicates of aluminum and widely used in making bricks, tiles, and pottery. b. A hardening or nonhardening material having a consistency similar to clay and used for modeling. 2. Geology A sedimentary material with grains smaller than 0.002 millimeters in diameter. 3. Moist sticky earth; mud. 4. The human body as opposed to the spirit. [Middle English clei, from Old English clæg.] clay  ey (kl ), clayish adj. |
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| Adj. | 1. | clayey - resembling or containing clay; "argillaceous rocks" |
| 2. | clayey - (used of soil) compact and fine-grained; "the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated" compact - closely and firmly united or packed together; "compact soil"; "compact clusters of flowers" |
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