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Doth bake the egg into clots as if it began
to poach.

Bacon.

&fist; Clod and clot appear to be radically the
same word, and are so used by early writers; but in present use
clod is applied to a mass of earth or the like, and
clot to a concretion or coagulation of soft matter.

Clot, v. i. [imp. & p.
p. Clotted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Clotting.] To concrete, coagulate, or thicken, as
soft or fluid matter by evaporation; to become a cot or
clod.

Clot, v. t. To form into a
slimy mass.

Clot"bur` (?), n. [Cf.
Clote.] 1. The burdock. [Prov.
Engl.] Prior.

2. Same as Cocklebur.

Clote (?), n. [AS. cl&?;te:
cf. G. klette.] The common burdock; the
clotbur. [Obs.


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