clot Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a lump of material formed from the content of a liquid
    coagulum.
  2. verb change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state
    coagulate.
    • coagulated blood
  3. verb cause to change from a liquid to a solid or thickened state
    coagulate.
  4. verb turn into curds
    curdle; clabber.
    • curdled milk
  5. verb coalesce or unite in a mass
    clog.
    • Blood clots

WordNet

Clot noun
Etymology
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. clate bur. Cf. Clod, n., Clutter to clot.
Definitions
  1. 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.
    ✍ 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.
Clot intransitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Clotted; present participle & verbal noun Clotting
Definitions
  1. To concrete, coagulate, or thicken, as soft or fluid matter by evaporation; to become a cot or clod.
Clot transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To form into a slimy mass.

Webster 1913