clotted

Jibreel points to gauze used to bandage a wound, and remarks on the blood that clotted after the tourniquet was applied.

Leale’s fingers probed for the source of the blood and found it behind the left ear: a neat, round hole, about the diameter of a man’s fingertip, clotted with a plug of coagulated blood.

A hint: It’s dense, fragrant and dolloped with butter, clotted cream and fresh jam.

A patch of sand appeared to be clotted by dried blood.

We enter a symphonic troposphere where clouds are clotted harmonies, where turbulence is a string orchestra plucking and strumming violins and violas like guitars.