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The curd of milk, coagulated usually with rennet, separated from the whey, and pressed into a solid mass in a hoop or mold.

To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot; as, clodded gore. See Clot. Clodded in lumps of clay. G. Fletcher.

A concretion or coagulation; esp. a soft, slimy, coagulated mass, as of blood; a coagulum. "Clots of pory gore." Addison. Doth bake the egg into clots as if it began to poach. Bacon.

To clot or coagulate, as blood. [Obs.] Holland.

ce of another timber, or a dowel or pin of hard wood or iron uniting timbers. [Also spelt coag.]

mass or nodule of solid matter formed by growing together, by congelation, condensation, coagulation, induration, etc.; a clot; a lump; a calculus. Accidental ossifications or deposits of phosphates of lime in certain organs . . . are called osseous concretions. Dunglison.

cause to shrink. [R.] Strong liquors . . . intoxicate, constringe, harden the fibers, and coagulate the fluids. Arbuthnot.

vowels of united words) into one long vowel, or into a dipthong; synæresis; as, cogo for coago.

A semisolid mass or clot, especially that formed in coagulation of the blood.

Coagulated. [Obs.] His cruel wounds with crudy blood congealed. Spenser.

The coloring matter of the blood; the clotted portion of coagulated blood, containing the coloring matter; gore.

The coagulated or thickened part of milk, as distingushed from the whey, or watery part. It is eaten as food, especially when made into cheese. Curds and cream, the flower of country fare. Dryden.

To change into curd; to coagulate; as, rennet causes milk to curdle. Thomson.

Like curd; full of curd; coagulated. "A curdy mass." Arbuthnot.

Able or tending to discuss or disperse tumors or coagulated matter.

A white, albuminous, fibrous substance, formed in the coagulation of the blood either by decomposition of fibrinogen, or from the union of fibrinogen and paraglobulin which exist separately in the blood. It is insoluble in water, but is readily digestible in gastric and pancreatic juice.

, which either alone or with fibrinoplastin or paraglobulin forms fibrin, and thus causes coagulation.

e in hawks, characterized by the presence of small threadlike worms, also of filaments of coagulated blood, from the rupture of a vein; -- called also backworm. Sir T. Browne.

und in milk and other animal fluids. It resembles peptone, and is variously regarded as a coagulating or emulsifying agent.

A drop; a clot or coagulation. On thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood. Shak.