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Definition of Tripoli

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.

Meaning of Tripoli from wikipedia

- Look up Tripoli, tripoli, Tripolis, or طرابلس in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tripoli or Tripolis (from Ancient Gr****: Τρίπολις, meaning "three cities")...
- Tripoli, historically known as Tripoli-of-the-West, is the capital and largest city of Libya, with a po****tion of about 1.317 million people in 2021....
- Tripoli (/ˈtrɪpəli/ TRIP-əl-ee; Arabic: طَرَابُلُس, ALA-LC: Ṭarābulus, pronounced [tˤaˈraːbulus] ; Lebanese Arabic: طرابلس, romanized: Ṭrāblus, locally...
- Asteras Tripolis Football Club (Gr****: ΠΑΕ Αστέρας Τρίπολης), currently known as Asteras AKTOR for sponsorship reasons, commonly referred to as Asteras...
- Ottoman Tripolitania, also known as the Regency of Tripoli, was officially ruled by the Ottoman Empire from 1551 to 1912. It corresponded roughly to the...
- USS Tripoli may refer to: USS Tripoli (CVE-64) was a Casablanca-class escort carrier in service from 1943 to 1958 USS Tripoli (LPH-10) was an Iwo Jima-class...
- the quasi-independent North African Ottoman provinces of Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli, and the independent Sultanate of Morocco under the Alaouite dynasty (the...
- The County of Tripoli (1102–1289) was one of the Crusader states. It was founded in the Levant in the modern-day region of Tripoli, northern Lebanon and...
- Tripoli (Gr****: Τρίπολη, romanized: Trípoli; Katharevousa: Τρίπολις, romanized: Trípolis) is a city in the central part of the Peloponnese, in Greece....
- Algeria, south of the Libyan town of Ghat. The largest city and capital is Tripoli, which is located in northwestern Libya and contains over a million of...