clotted


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clot

 (klŏt)
n.
1. A thick, viscous, or coagulated mass or lump, as of blood.
2. A clump, mass, or lump, as of clay.
3. A compact group: a clot of trucks blocking the tunnel's entrance.
v. clot·ted, clot·ting, clots
v.intr.
To form into a clot or clots; coagulate: The blood clotted over the wound.
v.tr.
1. To cause to form into a clot or clots.
2. To fill or cover with or as if with clots.

[Middle English, from Old English clott, lump.]
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Adj.1.clotted - thickened or coalesced in soft thick lumps (such as clogs or clots); "clotted blood"; "seeds clogged together"
thick - relatively dense in consistency; "thick cream"; "thick soup"; "thick smoke"; "thick fog"
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Translations

clotted

adj hair clotted with mudmit Schlamm verklebtes Haar
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References in classic literature ?
And when he had taken his hand from the lad's head, the latter observed that his hair was full of clotted blood.
He made up his mind to eat less, but unfortunately it was not possible to carry out this brilliant idea when he wakened each morning with an amazing appetite and the table near his sofa was set with a breakfast of home-made bread and fresh butter, snow-white eggs, raspberry jam and clotted cream.
The wounded man was shown his amputated leg stained with clotted blood and with the boot still on.
Twice a year the priests assemble all the people at the Cathedral, and get out this vial of clotted blood and let them see it slowly dissolve and become liquid-- and every day for eight days, this dismal farce is repeated, while the priests go among the crowd and collect money for the exhibition.
He raised his hand to his head and brought it away sticky with clotted blood.
It was about three inches long, and on removing the clotted hair from about it, showed the skull laid completely bare.
After a few months' acquaintance with European "coffee," one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage of home, with its clotted layer of yellow cream on top of it, is not a mere dream, after all, and a thing which never existed.
Had it not been for the red jagged tear in the neck and the clotted black pool that was slowly widening on the table, one would have said that the man was simply asleep.
And out in the jungle, far away, Korak, covered with wounds, stiff with clotted blood, burning with rage and sorrow, swung back upon the trail of the great baboons.
The corpse, already greatly decayed and clotted with gore, stood erect before the eyes of the spectators.