Clot
Clot (klot) , noun
[Old English clot, clodde, clod; akin to Dutch kloot ball, German kloss clod, dumpling, klotz block, Danish klods, Swedish klot bowl, globe, klots block; compare Anglo-Saxon clāte bur. Compare Clod, n., Clutter to clot.]
A concretion or coagulation; esp. a soft, slimy, coagulated mass, as of blood; a coagulum.
Clots of pory gore.
Doth bake the egg into clots as if it began to poach.
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
To concrete, coagulate, or thicken, as soft or fluid matter by evaporation; to become a clot or clod.
Clot , transitive verb
To form into, or cover with, clots; to cause to coagulate; to make into a slimy mass.