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Clotted

Clot \Clot\, v. 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 cot or clod.

Clotted

Clotted \Clot"ted\, a. Composed of clots or clods; having the quality or form of a clot; sticky; slimy; foul. ``The clotted glebe.''
--J. Philips.

When lust . . . Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion.
--Milton.

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clotted

vb. (en-past of: clot)

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clotted

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clot
  1. n. a lump of material formed from the content of a liquid [syn: coagulum]

  2. [also: clotting, clotted]

clotted

adj. thickened or coalesced in soft thick lumps (such as clogs or clots); "clotted blood"; "seeds clogged together" [syn: clogged]

clot
  1. v. change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state; "coagulated blood" [syn: coagulate]

  2. cause to change from a liquid to a solid or thickened state [syn: coagulate]

  3. turn into curds; "curdled milk" [syn: curdle, clabber] [ant: homogenize, homogenize, homogenize]

  4. coalesce or unite in a mass; "Blood clots" [syn: clog]

  5. [also: clotting, clotted]

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Usage examples of "clotted".

Here, he told us the story of his adventures, in a disjoint fashion punctuated by small yelps as I cleaned the injury, clipped bits of clotted hair away, and put five or six stitches into his scalp.

Other ridge areas, lower and brushier, were clotted thick with houses.

It was a tea worth waiting for, in the true Exmoor tradition, with farmhouse scones, heather honey in the comb and clotted cream.

Big faecal gobs of the pulpy algae clotted his right arm, splattering over his face.

In these sites they joined the homeless human beings who had always been there, the winos and cokers and foamers and all the others in the noisome military surplus jackets and clotted beards and twine-tied shoes.

The yetis perpetually unsanitary fur was clotted with foetid lumps of food that had somehow failed to make the journey to his mouth without mishap.

Then, the broken flanks of Sango Lobango himself a chaos of pits and flinty needles, craters and caverns, hot streams and cold, all jungle clotted, as if in a stupendous hot-house, almost on up to the point where the snows began.

Corpses sprawled, bloated, discolored, amidst entrails and clotted blood, broken weapons, ruins of crude testudines under which the barbarians had tried to storm the gates.

He was just another dirty, smelly Bho trapa with his head shaven and his face clotted with that medicinal brown plant-sap.

They melded, and together attacked the final, clotted knot of Unis fighting to get in the gates.

Grinning, the former cook dropped his clotted sword, rolled Widahd onto her back, hurriedly shredded off the front of her skirt and set about raping the dying young woman, heedless of the spurting gushes of blood that soon soaked his shirtfront.

The rest of Keama Dusta, the greater part, was a vast sprawl of homes and businesses, huts and factories, taverns and warehouses, shops and showplaces, a clotted rambling conglomeration without apparent pattern to it.

In a hollow between hills a mother mammoth and two yearlings lolled away the afternoon heat, their shaggy hair clotted with old mud and manure.

Leeches injected an anticoagulant into the blood, and Tyson knew it would be hours before the holes clotted.

And the schizoid cats with clotted fur that lurk around Ennet House cringing and neurotic and afraid of their own shadow are too risky, for the female residents are always formulating attachments to them.