a. [f. CLOT sb. + -Y1.] Full of clots, inclined to clot; † formerly also = CLODDY.

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1523.  Fitzherb., Husb., § 15. If the barleye grounde … be clotty, it wolde be beaten with malles.

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1578.  Lyte, Dodoens, I. xviii. 28. Clottie & congeled bloud.

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1666.  G. Harvey, Morb. Angl., xxxi. 185 (J.). The matter expectorated is … thin and mixt with thick, clotty, blewish, yellow, greenish or blackish fleam.

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1677.  Earl Orrery, Art of War, 49. The upper part of the [Gun] Powder in the Cask weak and clotty.

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1834.  Brit. Husb., I. 507. If the land be … clotty, it is … advantageous to pass a light roller over it.

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