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ROT, v.i.

To lose the natural cohesion and organization of parts, as animal and vegetable substances; to be decomposed and resolved into its original component parts by the natural process, or the gradual operation of heat and air; to putrefy.

ROT, v.t. To make putrid; to cause to be decomposed by the natural operation of air and heat; to bring to corruption.

ROT, n.

1. A fatal distemper incident to sheep, usually supposed to be owing to wet seasons and moist pastures. The immediate cause of the mortality of sheep, in this disease, is found to be a great number of small animals, called flukes, (Fascida,) found in the liver, and supposed to be produced from eggs swallowed with their food.

2. Putrefaction; putrid decay.

3. Dry rot, in timber, the decay of the wood without the access of water.


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ROT, v.i.

To lose the natural cohesion and organization of parts, as animal and vegetable substances; to be decomposed and resolved into its original component parts by the natural process, or the gradual operation of heat and air; to putrefy.

ROT, v.t. To make putrid; to cause to be decomposed by the natural operation of air and heat; to bring to corruption.

ROT, n.

1. A fatal distemper incident to sheep, usually supposed to be owing to wet seasons and moist pastures. The immediate cause of the mortality of sheep, in this disease, is found to be a great number of small animals, called flukes, (Fascida,) found in the liver, and supposed to be produced from eggs swallowed with their food.

2. Putrefaction; putrid decay.

3. Dry rot, in timber, the decay of the wood without the access of water.

ROT, n.

  1. A fatal distemper incident to sheep, usually supposed to be owing to wet seasons and moist pastures. The immediate cause of the mortality of sheep, in this disease, is found to be a great number of small animals, called flukes, (Fasciola,) found in the liver, and supposed to be produced from eggs swallowed with their food. Encyc.
  2. Putrefaction; putrid decay. Philips.
  3. Dry rot, in timber, the decay of the wood without the access of water.

ROT, v.i. [Sax. rotian; D. rotten; Sw. röta; Dan. raadner.]

To lose the natural cohesion and organization of parts, as animal and vegetable substances; to be decomposed and resolved into its original component parts by the natural process, or the gradual operation of heat and air; to putrefy.


ROT, v.t.

To make putrid; to cause to be decomposed by the natural operation of air and heat; to bring to corruption.


Rot
  1. 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.

    Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot,
    To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.     Pope.

  2. To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes; as, to rot vegetable fiber.
  3. Process of rotting; decay; putrefaction.
  4. Figuratively: To perish slowly; to decay; to die; to become corrupt.

    Four of the sufferers were left to rot in irons. Macaulay.

    Rot, poor bachelor, in your club. Thackeray.

    Syn. -- To putrefy; corrupt; decay; spoil.

  5. To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
  6. A disease or decay in fruits, leaves, or wood, supposed to be caused by minute fungi. See Bitter rot, Black rot, etc., below.
  7. 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.

    His cattle must of rot and murrain die. Milton.

    Bitter rot (Bot.), a disease of apples, caused by the fungus Glæosporium fructigenum. F. L. Scribner. -- Black rot (Bot.), a disease of grapevines, attacking the leaves and fruit, caused by the fungus Læstadia Bidwellii. F. L. Scribner. -- Dry rot (Bot.) See under Dry. -- Grinder's rot (Med.) See under Grinder. -- Potato rot. (Bot.) See under Potato. -- White rot (Bot.), a disease of grapes, first appearing in whitish pustules on the fruit, caused by the fungus Coniothyrium diplodiella. F. L. Scribner.

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Rot

ROT, verb intransitive

To lose the natural cohesion and organization of parts, as animal and vegetable substances; to be decomposed and resolved into its original component parts by the natural process, or the gradual operation of heat and air; to putrefy.

ROT, verb transitive To make putrid; to cause to be decomposed by the natural operation of air and heat; to bring to corruption.

ROT, noun

1. A fatal distemper incident to sheep, usually supposed to be owing to wet seasons and moist pastures. The immediate cause of the mortality of sheep, in this disease, is found to be a great number of small animals, called flukes, (Fascida, ) found in the liver, and supposed to be produced from eggs swallowed with their food.

2. Putrefaction; putrid decay.

3. Dry rot in timber, the decay of the wood without the access of water.

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