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Webster 1913 Edition
Rot
Rot
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Rotted
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Rotting
.] 1.
To undergo a process common to organic substances by which they lose the cohesion of their parts and pass through certain chemical changes, giving off usually in some stages of the process more or less offensive odors; to become decomposed by a natural process; to putrefy; to decay.
Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot,
To draw nutrition, propagate, and
To draw nutrition, propagate, and
rot
. Pope.
2.
Figuratively: To perish slowly; to decay; to die; to become corrupt.
Four of the sufferers were left to
rot
in irons. Macaulay.
Rot
, poor bachelor, in your club. Thackeray.
Syn. – To putrefy; corrupt; decay; spoil.
Rot
,Verb.
T.
1.
To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes;
as, to
. rot
vegetable fiber2.
To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
Rot
,Noun.
1.
Process of rotting; decay; putrefaction.
2.
(Bot.)
A disease or decay in fruits, leaves, or wood, supposed to be caused by minute fungi. See
Bitter rot
, Black rot
, etc., below. 3.
[Cf. G.
rotz
glanders.] A fatal distemper which attacks sheep and sometimes other animals. It is due to the presence of a parasitic worm in the liver or gall bladder. See 1st
Fluke
, 2. His cattle must of
rot
and murrain die. Milton.
Bitter rot
(Bot.)
, a disease of apples, caused by the fungus
Glaeosporium fructigenum
. F. L. Scribner.
– Black rot
(Bot.)
, a disease of grapevines, attacking the leaves and fruit, caused by the fungus
Laestadia Bidwellii
. F. L. Scribner.
– Dry rot
(Bot.)
See under
– Dry
. Grinder’s rot
(Med.)
See under
– Grinder
. Potato rot
. (Bot.)
See under
– Potato
. White rot
(Bot.)
, a disease of grapes, first appearing in whitish pustules on the fruit, caused by the fungus
Coniothyrium diplodiella
. F. L. Scribner.
Webster 1828 Edition
Rot
ROT
, v.i.To lose the natural cohesion and organization of parts, as animal and vegetable substances; to be decomposed and resolved into its original component parts by the natural process, or the gradual operation of heat and air; to putrefy.
ROT
,Verb.
T.
ROT
,Noun.
1.
A fatal distemper incident to sheep, usually supposed to be owing to wet seasons and moist pastures. The immediate cause of the mortality of sheep, in this disease, is found to be a great number of small animals, called flukes, (Fascida,) found in the liver, and supposed to be produced from eggs swallowed with their food.2.
Putrefaction; putrid decay.3.
Dry rot, in timber, the decay of the wood without the access of water.