The Collaborative International Dictionary
Congealment \Con*geal"ment\, n.
The act or the process of congealing; congeliation.
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That which is formed by congelation; a clot. [Obs.]
Wash the congealment from your wounds.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of congealing 2 Something that has congealed; a clot
WordNet
n. the process of congealing; solidification by (or as if by) freezing [syn: congelation]
Usage examples of "congealment".
Steel sheared through the wraithlike figures with the sickening feel of clinging jelly-gristle-boned, repulsive substance whose consistency suggested an unthinkable congealment of noxious mist.
He belched violently -- an affliction of age, this, its coarseness seeming to correspond to the general thickening induced by the years, a thickening of the tongue as well as the body, a slow congealment of the blood, that had turned Baal at fifty into a figure quite unlike his quick young self.
The refrigerator was a disaster—ten days' worth of congealment and spoilage.
These sudden congealments in the state of revery, which a single word suffices to evoke, do occur.
Sensed impressi0~ strung out to elastic proportions, as if moving time and the trestle: dune grass had slowed to congealment in amber.