Clay

n.	1.	A soft earth, which is plastic, or may be molded with the hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium. It is the result of the wearing down and decomposition, in part, of rocks containing aluminous minerals, as granite. Lime, magnesia, oxide of iron, and other ingredients, are often present as impurities.
	2.	(Poetry & Script.) Earth in general, as representing the elementary particles of the human body; hence, the human body as formed from such particles. I also am formed out of the clay. - Job xxxiii. 6. The earth is covered thick with other clay, Which her own clay shall cover. - Byron. Bowlder clay See under Bowlder. Brick clay the common clay, containing some iron, and therefore turning red when burned. Clay cold cold as clay or earth; lifeless; inanimate. Clay ironstone an ore of iron consisting of the oxide or carbonate of iron mixed with clay or sand. Clay marl a whitish, smooth, chalky clay. Clay mill a mill for mixing and tempering clay; a pug mill. Clay pit a pit where clay is dug. Clay slate (Min.) argillaceous schist; argillite. Fatty clays clays having a greasy feel; they are chemical compounds of water, silica, and aluminia, as halloysite, bole, etc. Fire clay a variety of clay, entirely free from lime, iron, or an alkali, and therefore infusible, and used for fire brick. Porcelain clay a very pure variety, formed directly from the decomposition of feldspar, and often called kaolin. Potter's clay a tolerably pure kind, free from iron.
v. t.	1.	To cover or manure with clay. [imp. & p. p. Clayed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Claying.]
	2.	To clarify by filtering through clay, as sugar.

Noun	1.	clay - a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired
	2.	clay - water soaked soil; soft wet earth Synonyms: mud
	3.	Clay - 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
	4.	Clay - United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852) Synonyms: Henry Clay, the Great Compromiser
	5.	clay - the dead body of a human being Synonyms: cadaver, corpse, remains, stiff

To see or work with clay in your dream, represents creativity. You are well-grounded. Alternatively, it indicates your need to set some goals and plans for yourself. You have some growing up to do and need to plan for the future. It also refers to healing. According to Freudian perspective, clay symbolizes faces.Adam, Hominidae, Homo sapiens, Missouri meerschaum, acres, alluvion, alluvium, anatomy, arable land, ashes, blubber, body, bones, breeze, briar, briar pipe, butter, cadaver, calean, calumet, carcass, carrion, china, china clay, china stone, churchwarden, clod, corncob, corncob pipe, corpse, corpus, corpus delicti, crowbait, crust, cushion, dead body, dead man, dead person, decedent, dirt, dough, down, dry bones, dry land, dust, earth, eiderdown, embalmed corpse, enamel, fallen humanity, feather bed, feathers, figure, fireclay, fleece, flesh, floss, flue, fluff, flux, foam, food for worms, form, frame, freehold, generation of man, genus Homo, glaze, glebe, grassland, ground, gumbo, hominid, homo, hookah, hubble-bubble, hulk, human family, human nature, human race, human species, humanity, humankind, kaolin, kapok, land, landholdings, late lamented, le genre humain, lithosphere, man, mankind, marginal land, marl, material body, meerschaum, mire, mold, mortal flesh, mortal remains, mortality, mortals, muck, mud, mummification, mummy, nargileh, ooze, organic remains, peace pipe, person, petuntse, physical body, physique, pillow, pipe, pipe cleaner, pipe rack, plush, porcelain, porcelain clay, pudding, puff, putty, race of man, real estate, real property, refractory, refractory clay, region, regolith, relics, reliquiae, remains, rubber, satin, silk, skeleton, slime, slip, slob, slop, slosh, sludge, slush, sod, soil, soma, squash, stiff, subaerial deposit, subsoil, swansdown, swill, tenement of clay, terra, terra firma, terrain, territory, the country, the dead, the deceased, the defunct, the departed, the loved one, thistledown, tobacco pipe, tobacco pouch, topsoil, torso, trunk, velvet, water pipe, wax, woodland, wool, zephyr