ppl. a. [f. CLOT v. + -ED.]

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  1.  Gathered into clots, clods or lumps; coagulated, thickened.

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1605.  Sylvester, Du Bartas, I. ii. 34. The clotted Mud.

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1636.  Massinger, Bashful Lover, III. iii. Wash off The clotted blood.

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1801.  Southey, Thalaba, VII. xvi. Off he shook the clotted earth.

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1870.  Bryant, Iliad, I. V. 174. He raised the band, and from the wounded limb Wiped off the clotted blood.

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  b.  Clotted cream: = CLOUTED-CREAM, q.v.

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1878.  Oxford Bible-Helps, 137. The Hebrews … made a kind of clotted cream by subjecting new milk to fermentation.

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  2.  Stuck together in or with clots; covered with clots (of blood, etc.).

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1725.  Pope, Odyss., XV. 568. The clotted feathers.

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1804.  J. Grahame, Sabbath, 595. The clotted scourge hangs hardening in the shrouds.

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a. 1839.  Praed, Poems (1864), I. 199. With a gash beneath his clotted hair.

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