Clotted
['klɔtid]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Clot
(a.) Composed of clots or clods; having the quality or form of a clot; sticky; slimy; foul.
Checker: Newman
Examples
- On the path, too, and among the heather were dark stains of clotted blood. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- In a little while the microbes begin to develop and increase, forming colonies, in which they swarm by the million, and present the clotted appearance seen in Fig. 178. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- If you can moisten its lips with the milk, Miss Halcombe, I will wash the clotted hair from the wound. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- In the face of a clotted intricacy in the subject-matter of politics, improvements in knowledge seem meager indeed. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- My knees knocked together, my teeth chattered, the current of my blood, clotted by sudden cold, painfully forced its way from my heavy heart. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Last year I sent some Devonshire clotted cream, which I prepared myself, to Zanzibar, on the east coast of Africa. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
Checker: Newman