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.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Clot \Clot\, n. [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. cl[=a]te bur. Cf. Clod,
n., 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.
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.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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