transitive. To make dense in consistence. archaic.

transitive. To cause (milk, etc.) to coagulate or curdle. Also with together. Formerly also: †to make (cheese) from milk in this way (obsolete).

transitive. To cause (something) to curdle or coagulate. Obsolete.

To make (a liquid) viscid or jelly-like; to stiffen, curdle, clot, coagulate (esp. the blood; often in figurative sense: cf. curdle, v. 1b).

transitive. To curdle, coagulate, or clot (blood or other body fluids). In later use esp. in figurative use with reference to fear (cf. to curdle the…

transitive. To make dense in consistence; to coagulate, inspissate. Also figurative.

An earlier equivalent of coagulate, v. intransitive and transitive.

transitive. To form into lumps or masses; to clot, congeal.

transitive. To form (milk) into curd; to cause (a sauce, custard, etc.) to separate so as to form soft lumps surrounded by liquid. Also more…

intransitive. To run together in clots; to clot, coagulate. Also transitive = clotter, v. i. Obsolete.

intransitive. To curdle, turn sour.

transitive. To convert (certain fluids, as blood, milk, albumen, etc.) into a soft solid mass, as by chemical action, heat, exposure to air, etc…

intransitive. To curdle like a posset. Obsolete. rare.

To coagulate (†const. together). Now only dialect, to curdle (milk) for cheese; also absol.

transitive. To form by cohesion or coalescence of particles, to form into a mass; to render solid, congeal, coagulate, clot. (Mostly in passive.)

transitive. To cause (milk) to curdle, esp. in the production of cheese. Formerly also intransitive: (of milk) †to curdle, to form curds (obsolete)…

intransitive. To run together in clots, to coagulate. Also transitive. To curdle or coagulate. (The two constructions meet in the past…

transitive. To clot, coagulate, congeal.