curdled, ppl. a.
(ˈkɜːd(ə)ld)
[f. as prec. + -ed.]
1. Formed into curd; coagulated, congealed, clotted.
| 1596 Spenser Astroph. 152 With crudled blood and filthie gore deformed. 1676 J. Beaumont in Phil. Trans. XI. 733 Fill'd with a milky crudeled substance. 1819 Shelley Cyclops 129 Store of curdled cheese. 1828 Scott F.M. Perth xxiii, The curdled wounds gave no sign of blood. |
b. fig. of the blood, etc.
| 1697 Dryden Virg. æneid ii. 766, I felt my crudled Blood congeal with Fear. 1815 Byron Parisina xiv, As ice were in her curdled blood. |
c. transf. and fig.
| 1590 Spenser F.Q. i. vii. 6 Till crudled cold his corage gan assayle. 1602 Marston Ant. & Mel. i. i. Wks. 1856 I. 16 Crudl'd fogges masked even darknesse brow. 1685 H. More Some Cursory Refl. 10 This cold and crudled Infidelity. 1821 Clare Vill. Minstr. II. 93 O'er the water crink'd the curdled wave. 1850 Kingsley Alt. Locke xxviii, Dark curdled clouds..swept on. |
2. Of a lens: (see quot.)
| 1832 Porter Porcelain & Gl. 245 When this fault [imperfect polishing] exists in a degree so exaggerated as to be visible to the naked eye, the lens is said to be curdled. |