Dictionary entry

Coagulate (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Co‐ag″u‐late (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Coagulated (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Coagulating (?).] To cause (a liquid) to change into a curdlike or semisolid state, not by evaporation but by some kind of chemical reaction; to curdle; as, rennet coagulates milk; heat coagulates the white of an egg.