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Definition of Clotty
1. a. Full of clots, or clods.
Definition of Clotty
1. Adjective. Full of clots, or clods. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Clotty
1. tending to clot [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clotty
Literary usage of Clotty
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Contributions to the Study of Elliptical Words in Modern English by Karl Sundén (1904)
""There is to be no more shooting", retorted Atropos firmly, Kessy and clotty and
I have determined that this day has been sufficient for you. ..."
2. Pharmaceutical Journal by Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1869)
"When the separation forms clotty masses, the remedy is to pour off the spirit
and mil in as much water, with the-elote, as will completely disintegrate them ..."
3. The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1838)
"In two cases it presented a slight crust at the surface, and beneath it was
diffluent and clotty. In two cases the blood was completely diffluent and clotty ..."
4. Medical and Physiological Commentaries by Martyn Paine (1840)
"The " clotty blood " should go with our facts, vol. ip 451 — 459, 668, &c.
(2) Lon Med. Gaz. vol. xvi. p. 518. (3) Edin. Jour. vol. viii. p. 184, &c. ..."
5. The Houblon Family: Its Story and Times by Alice Frances (Lindsay) Archer Houblon (1907)
"I had like to have forgot to inform you that I have risked a part of your "
clotty,"2 and you are to gain the 6th part of 24000^. I hope you don't object. ..."
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