[clot] n [ME, fr. OE clott; akin to MHG kloz lump, ball--more at clout] (bef. 12c) 1: a portion of a substance cleaving together in a thick nondescript mass (as of clay or gum)
2. a: a roundish viscous lump formed by coagulation of a portion of liquid or by melting b: a coagulated mass produced by clotting of blood 3 Brit: blockhead
4: cluster, group "a ~ of spectators"
[2]clot vb clot.ted ; clot.ting vi (15c) 1: to become a clot: form clots
2: to undergo a sequence of complex chemical and physical reactions that results in conversion of fluid blood into a coagulated mass: coagulate ~ vt 1: to cause to form into or as if into a clot
2: to fill with clots