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Aster Tripolium Sharewort Share"wort`, n. (Bot.)
A composite plant (Aster Tripolium) growing along the
seacoast of Europe.
Tripoli 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.
Tripoli 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.
Tripoline Tripoline Trip"o*line, a.
1. Of or pertaining to Tripoli or its inhabitants;
Tripolitan.
2. Of or pertaining to tripoli, the mineral.
Tripolitan Tripolitan Tri*pol"i*tan, a.
Of or pertaining to Tripoli or its inhabitants; Tripoline. --
n. A native or inhabitant of Tripoli.
