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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

- Tripoli (/ˈtrɪpəli/; Arabic: طرابلس‎, Ṭarābulus) is the capital city and the largest city of Libya, with a po****tion of about 2.358 million people in...
- Tripoli (Arabic: طرابلس‎ / ALA-LC: Ṭarābulus) is the largest city in northern Lebanon and the second-largest city in the country. Situated 85 kilometers...
- were nominal provinces of the Ottoman Empire, but in practice autonomous: Tripoli, Algiers, and Tunis. The fourth was the independent Sultanate of Morocco...
- Tripoli is the capital and largest city in Libya. Tripoli or Tripolis may also refer to: Tripoli, Greece, also known as Tripolis, city in southern Greece...
- rival General National Congress (GNC) government, based in the capital Tripoli and established after Operation Odyssey Dawn and the failed military coup...
- Representatives, to capture the western region of Libya and eventually the capital Tripoli held by the UN Security Council-recognised Government of National Accord...
- The Tripoli Protection Force is a militia that was formed from the merger of four Libyan militias on 18 December 2018. Groups involved in the merger include:...
- Tripoli (Gr****: Τρίπολη, Trípoli, formerly Τρίπολις, Trípolis; earlier Τριπολιτσά Tripolitsá) is a city in the central part of the Peloponnese, in Greece...
- Turkish: ایالت طرابلس غرب‎ Eyālet-i Trâblus Gârb) or Bey and Subjects of Tripoli of Barbary from 1864 to 1912 and as the Vilayet of Tripolitania (Ottoman...
- USS Tripoli (LHA-7) is the second America-cl**** amphibious ****ault ship built for the United States Navy. Tripoli is the third U.S. Navy ship named for...
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