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Webster 1913 Edition
Clot
Clot
(klŏt)
, Noun.
[OE. ,
clot
, clodde
, clod; akin to D. kloot
ball, G. kloss
clod, dumpling, klotz
block, Dan. klods
, Sw. klot
bowl, globe, klots
block; cf. AS. clāte
bur. Cf. Clod
, Noun.
Clutter
to clot.] A concretion or coagulation; esp. a soft, slimy, coagulated mass, as of blood; a coagulum.
“Clots of pory gore.” Addison.
Doth bake the egg into
clots
as if it began to poach. Bacon.
☞ Clod and clot appear to be radically the same word, and are so used by early writers; but in present use clod is applied to a mass of earth or the like, and clot to a concretion or coagulation of soft matter.
Clot
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Clotted
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Clotting
.] To concrete, coagulate, or thicken, as soft or fluid matter by evaporation; to become a clot or clod.
Clot
,Verb.
T.
To form into, or cover with, clots; to cause to coagulate; to make into a slimy mass.
Webster 1828 Edition
Clot
CLOT
,Noun.
CLOT
,Verb.
I.
1.
To concrete; to coagulate, as soft or fluid matter into a thick, inspissated mass; as milk or blood clots.2.
To form into clots or clods; to adhere; as, clotted glebe.Definition 2024
clot
clot
See also: clôt
English
Noun
clot (plural clots)
- A solidified mass of blood.
- A solidified mass of any liquid.
- Francis Bacon
- Doth bake the egg into clots as if it began to poach.
- Francis Bacon
- A silly person.
Translations
blood clot
|
a silly person
Verb
clot (third-person singular simple present clots, present participle clotting, simple past and past participle clotted)
Translations
to form into a clot
|
to cause to clot