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  4  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Rotten  \Rot"ten\,  a.  [Icel.  rotinn;  akin  to  Sw  rutten,  Dan. 
  radden.  See  {Rot}.] 
  Having  rotted;  putrid;  decayed;  as  a  rotten  apple;  rotten 
  meat.  Hence: 
  a  Offensive  to  the  smell;  fetid;  disgusting. 
 
  You  common  cry  of  curs!  whose  breath  I  hate  As  reek 
  of  the  rotten  fens.  --Shak. 
  b  Not  firm  or  trusty;  unsound;  defective;  treacherous; 
  unsafe;  as  a  rotten  plank,  bone,  stone.  ``The  deepness 
  of  the  rotten  way.''  --Knolles. 
 
  {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},  n. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Tripoli  \Trip"o*li\,  n.  (Min.) 
  An  earthy  substance  originally  brought  from  Tripoli,  used  in 
  polishing  stones  and  metals.  It  consists  almost  wholly  of  the 
  siliceous  shells  of  diatoms. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  Tripoli 
  n  1:  the  largest  city  one  of  the  capital  cities  of  Libya;  founded 
  by  the  Phoenicians  in  the  7th  century  BC  [syn:  {Tripoli}, 
  {capital  of  Libya}] 
  2:  a  port  in  northern  Lebanon  on  the  Mediterranean  [syn:  {Tripoli}] 
 
  From  U.S.  Gazetteer  (1990)  [gazetteer]: 
 
  Tripoli,  IA  (city,  FIPS  78915) 
  Location:  42.80976  N,  92.25758  W 
  Population  (1990):  1188  (546  housing  units) 
  Area:  3.6  sq  km  (land),  0.0  sq  km  (water) 
  Zip  code(s):  50676 
  Tripoli,  WI 
  Zip  code(s):  54564




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