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A lump or mass, especially of earth, turf, or clay. "Clods of a slimy substance." Carew. "Clods of iron and brass." Milton. "Clods of blood." E. Fairfax. The earth that casteth up from the plow a great clod, is not so good as that which casteth up a smaller clod. Bacon.

Resembling clods; gross; low; stupid; boorish. Hawthorne. -- Clod"dish*ness, n.

Consisting of clods; full of clods.

A rude, rustic fellow.

Boorish; rude. C. Bronté.

A blockhead; a dolt.

Stupid; dull; doltish.

A stupid fellow; a dolt. [Written also clodpole.] Shak.

tection; refuge. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] [Also written bield and beeld.] The random beild o' clod or stane. Burns.

A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after plowing; a drag.

g; to produce offspring. Canst thou mark when the hinds do calve Job xxxix. 1. The grassy clods now calved. Molton.

ncrete, coagulate, or thicken, as soft or fluid matter by evaporation; to become a cot or clod.

See Clodpoll. [Obs.] Shak.

Composed of clots or clods; having the quality or form of a clot; sticky; slimy; foul. "The clotted glebe." J. Philips. When lust . . . Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion. Milton.

Full of clots, or clods. "Clotty matter." Harvey.

A lump; a clod.

Pertaining to the glebe; turfy; cloddy; fertile; fruitful. "Gleby land." Prior.

and set with iron or wooden teeth. It is drawn over plowed land to level it and break the clods, to stir the soil and make it fine, or to cover seed when sown.

A heavy cylinder used to break clods. Mortimer.