Definition for CLOT

CLOT, n. [See Clod.]

A concretion, particularly of soft or fluid matter, which concretes into a mass or lump; as, a clot of blood. Clod and clot appear to be radically the same word; but we usually apply clod to a hard mass of earth, and clot to a mass of softer substances, or fluids concreted.

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