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Webster 1913 Edition
Rotten
Rot′ten
,Adj.
Having rotted; putrid; decayed;
Hence: as, a
. rotten
apple; rotten
meat(a)
Offensive to the smell; fetid; disgusting.
You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate
As reek of the
As reek of the
rotten
fens. Shakespeare
(b)
Not firm or trusty; unsound; defective; treacherous; unsafe;
“The deepness of the rotten way.” as, a
. rotten
plank, bone, stoneKnolles.
Rotten borough
. See under
– Borough
. Rotten stone
(Min.)
, a soft stone, called also Tripoli (from the country from which it was formerly brought), used in all sorts of finer grinding and polishing in the arts, and for cleaning metallic substances. The name is also given to other friable siliceous stones applied to like uses.
Syn. – Putrefied; decayed; carious; defective; unsound; corrupt; deceitful; treacherous.
– Rot′ten-ly
, adv.
Rot′ten-ness
, Noun.
Webster 1828 Edition
Rotten
ROTTEN
,Adj.
1.
Putrid; carious; decomposed by the natural process of decay; as a rotten plank.2.
Not firm or trusty; unsound; defective in principle; treacherous; deceitful.3.
Defective in substance; not sound or hard.4.
Fetid; ill smelling.