Definition of rot

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Rot (v. t.) To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret..

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Clypeate :: Clypeate (a.) Furnished with a shield, or a protective plate or shell..
Troth :: Troth (n.) Truth; verity; veracity; as, by my troth..
Frothy :: Frothy (superl.) Full of foam or froth, or consisting of froth or light bubbles; spumous; foamy..
Parotid :: Parotid (n.) The parotid gland.
Shelter :: Shelter (n.) That which covers or defends from injury or annoyance; a protection; a screen.
Defence :: Defence (n.) The defendant's answer or plea; an opposing or denial of the truth or validity of the plaintiff's or prosecutor's case; the method of proceeding adopted by the defendant to protect himself against the plaintiff's action.
Dextrorotatory :: Dextrorotatory (a.) Turning, or causing to turn, toward the right hand; esp., turning the plane of polarization of luminous rays toward the right hand; as, dextrorotatory crystals, sugars, etc. Cf. Levorotatory..
Stock-blind :: Stockade (v. t.) To surround, fortify, or protect with a stockade..
Rotatory :: Rotatory (a.) Producing rotation of the plane of polarization; as, the rotatory power of bodies on light. See the Note under polarization..
Prorogue :: Prorogue (v. t.) To protract; to prolong; to extend.
Spumeous :: Spume (v. i.) To froth; to foam.
Running :: Running (a.) Having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer.
Rot :: Rot (v. i.) 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..
Hydrotellurate :: Hydrotellurate (n.) A salt formed by the union of hydrotelluric acid and the base.
Pedage :: Pedage (n.) A toll or tax paid by passengers, entitling them to safe-conduct and protection..
Budding :: Budding (n.) A process of asexual reproduction, in which a new organism or cell is formed by a protrusion of a portion of the animal or vegetable organism, the bud thus formed sometimes remaining attached to the parent stalk or cell, at other times becoming free; gemmation. See Hydroidea..
Trothplight :: Trothplight (a.) Betrothed; espoused; affianced.
Protonotary :: Protonotary (n.) Formerly, one who had the charge of writing the acts of the martyrs, and the circumstances of their death; now, one of twelve persons, constituting a college in the Roman Curia, whose office is to register pontifical acts and to make and preserve the official record of beatifications..
Quartenylic :: Quartenylic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the acrylic acid series, metameric with crotonic acid, and obtained as a colorless liquid; -- so called from having four carbon atoms in the molecule. Called also isocrotonic acid..
Borough-english :: Borough-English (n.) A custom, as in some ancient boroughs, by which lands and tenements descend to the youngest son, instead of the eldest; or, if the owner have no issue, to the youngest brother..
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