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A concretion or coagulation; esp. a soft, slimy, coagulated mass, as of blood; a coagulum.

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  1. n. A concretion or coagulation; esp. a soft, slimy, coagulated mass, as of blood; a coagulum.
  2. v. i. To concrete, coagulate, or thicken, as soft or fluid matter by evaporation; to become a cot or clod.
  3. v. t. To form into a slimy mass.
  4. n. a lump of material formed from the content of a liquid
  5. v. change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state
  6. v. cause to change from a liquid to a solid or thickened state
  7. v. turn into curds
  8. v. coalesce or unite in a mass
  9. 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. Note: 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. To concrete, coagulate, or thicken, as soft or fluid matter by evaporation; to become a cot or clod. To form into a slimy mass.
  10. A concretion or coagulation; esp. a soft, slimy, coagulatedmass, as of blood; a coagulum. "Clots of pory gore." Addison.Doth bake the egg into clots as if it began to poach. Bacon.
  11. v:39/n:61 n. a lump of material formed from the content of a liquid v. change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state v. cause to change from a liquid to a solid or thickened state