ppl. a. [f. CLUTTER v. + -ED.]
† 1. Run together in clots, clotted, coagulated; = CLOTTERED. Obs.
1577–87. Holinshed, England, V. xv. I. 94/2. With the red mantle of their cluttered bloud.
1622. Drayton, Poly-olb., xviii. Cluttered gore.
1657. W. Coles, Adam in Eden, cl. 230. It … provoketh Urine, dissolveth cluttered gravell.
2. Crowded so as to cause confusion. (U.S.)
1865. Rutland Weekly Herald, 9 March, 1/2. A little dingy room, cluttered with pots, kettles, tables and chairs.
1888. Harper’s Mag., Nov., 964/2. Without being cluttered, it [Mrs. H. Ward’s R. Elsmere] gives a sense of the fulness of the English world.
