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Bogtrotting Bogtrotting Bog"trot`ting, a.
Living among bogs.
rotting Retting Ret"ting, n.
1. The act or process of preparing flax for use by soaking,
maceration, and kindred processes; -- also called
rotting. See Ret. --Ure.
2. A place where flax is retted; a rettery. --Ure.
Rotting Rot Rot, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rotted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Rotting.] [OE. rotien, AS. rotian; akin to D. rotten, Prov.
G. rotten, OHG. rozz?n, G. r["o]sten to steep flax, Icel.
rotna to rot, Sw. ruttna, Dan. raadne, Icel. rottin rotten.
[root]117. Cf. Ret, Rotten.]
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. 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.
Trotting Trot Trot, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Trotted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Trotting.] [OE. trotten, OF. troter, F. trotter; probably
of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. tread; cf. OHG. trott?n to
tread. See Tread.]
1. To proceed by a certain gait peculiar to quadrupeds; to
ride or drive at a trot. See Trot, n.
2. Fig.: To run; to jog; to hurry.
He that rises late must trot all day, and will
scarcely overtake his business at night. --Franklin.
Water-rotting Water-rot Wa"ter-rot`, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Water-rotted; p.
pr. & vb. n. Water-rotting.]
To rot by steeping in water; to water-ret; as, to water-rot
hemp or flax.
