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n. Agency in common; joint agency or agent. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An associate in an act; a coworker. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. coagmentare, fr. coagmentum a joining together, fr. cogere. See Cogent. ] To join together. [ Obs. ] Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. coagmentatio. ] The act of joining, or the state of being joined, together; union. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being coagulable; capacity of being coagulated. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being coagulated. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. coagulans, p. pr. ] That which produces coagulation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. coagulatus, p. p. of coagulare to coagulate, fr. coagulum means of coagulation, fr. cogere, coactum, to drive together, coagulate. See Cogent. ] Coagulated. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To undergo coagulation. Boyle.

Syn. -- To thicken; concrete; curdle; clot; congeal. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Changed into, or contained in, a coagulum or a curdlike mass; curdled. [ 1913 Webster ]

Coagulated proteid (Physiol. Chem.), one of a class of bodies formed in the coagulation of a albuminous substance by heat, acids, or other agents. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. coagulatio. ] 1. The change from a liquid to a thickened, curdlike, insoluble state, not by evaporation, but by some kind of chemical reaction; as, the spontaneous coagulation of freshly drawn blood; the coagulation of milk by rennet, or acid, and the coagulation of egg albumin by heat. Coagulation is generally the change of an albuminous body into an insoluble modification. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The substance or body formed by coagulation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the power to cause coagulation; as, a coagulative agent. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That which causes coagulation. Hixley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Serving to coagulate; produced by coagulation; as, coagulatory effects. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Coagula [ L. See Coagulate, a. ] The thick, curdy precipitate formed by the coagulation of albuminous matter; any mass of coagulated matter, as a clot of blood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a large sandwich on a long crusty roll that is split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the U. S., such as hero, grinder, and submarine.
Syn. -- bomber, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, Cuban sandwich, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Not coagulable. [ 1913 Webster ]