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- English Word Rot Definition 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.
- English Word Rot Definition Figuratively: To perish slowly; to decay; to die; to become corrupt.
- English Word Rot Definition To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes; as, to rot vegetable fiber.
- English Word Rot Definition To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
- English Word Rot Definition Process of rotting; decay; putrefaction.
- English Word Rot Definition A disease or decay in fruits, leaves, or wood, supposed to be caused by minute fungi. See Bitter rot, Black rot, etc., below.
- English Word Rot Definition 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.
- English Word Rota Definition An ecclesiastical court of Rome, called also Rota Romana, that takes cognizance of suits by appeal. It consists of twelve members.
- English Word Rota Definition A short-lived political club established in 1659 by J.Harrington to inculcate the democratic doctrine of election of the principal officers of the state by ballot, and the annual retirement of a portion of Parliament.
- English Word Rota Definition A species of zither, played like a guitar, used in the Middle Ages in church music; -- written also rotta.
- English Word Rotacism Definition See Rhotacism.
- English Word Rotal Definition Relating to wheels or to rotary motion; rotary.
- English Word Rotalite Definition Any fossil foraminifer of the genus Rotalia, abundant in the chalk formation. See Illust. under Rhizopod.
- English Word Rotary Definition Turning, as a wheel on its axis; pertaining to, or resembling, the motion of a wheel on its axis; rotatory; as, rotary motion.
- English Word Rotascope Definition Same as Gyroscope, 1.
- English Word Rotate Definition Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped; as, a rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla, i.e., a monopetalous corolla with a flattish border, and no tube or a very short one.
- English Word Rotate Definition To turn, as a wheel, round an axis; to revolve.
- English Word Rotate Definition To perform any act, function, or operation in turn, to hold office in turn; as, to rotate in office.
- English Word Rotate Definition To cause to turn round or revolve, as a wheel around an axle.
- English Word Rotate Definition To cause to succeed in turn; esp., to cause to succeed some one, or to be succeeded by some one, in office.
- English Word Rotated Definition of Rotate
- English Word Rotated Definition Turned round, as a wheel; also, wheel-shaped; rotate.
- English Word Rotating Definition of Rotate
- English Word Rotation Definition The act of turning, as a wheel or a solid body on its axis, as distinguished from the progressive motion of a revolving round another body or a distant point; thus, the daily turning of the earth on its axis is a rotation; its annual motion round the sun is a revolution.
- English Word Rotation Definition Any return or succesion in a series.
- English Word Rotation Definition Pertaining to, or resulting from, rotation; of the nature of, or characterized by, rotation; as, rotational velocity.
- English Word Rotative Definition turning, as a wheel; rotary; rotational.
- English Word Rotator Definition that which gives a rotary or rolling motion, as a muscle which partially rotates or turns some part on its axis.
- English Word Rotator Definition A revolving reverberatory furnace.
- English Word Rotatoria Definition Same as Rotifera.