Four of the sufferers were left to rot in irons.
Macaulay.
Rot, poor bachelor, in your club.
Thackeray.
Syn. -- To putrefy; corrupt; decay; spoil.
Rot, v. t. 1. To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially
decomposed by natural processes; as, to rot vegetable fiber.
2. To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the
purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
Rot, n. 1. Process of rotting; decay; putrefaction.
2. (Bot.) A disease or decay in fruits, leaves, or wood, supposed to be
caused by minute fungi. See Bitter rot, Black rot, etc., below.
3. [Cf. G. rotz glanders.] 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.
||Ro"ta (?), n. [L. rota wheel. The name is said to allude to the
||design of the floor of the room in which the court used to sit, which
||was that of a wheel. See Rotary.] 1. An ecclesiastical court of Rome,
||called also Rota Romana, that takes cognizance of suits by appeal. It
||consists of twelve members.
2. (Eng. Hist.) A short-lived political club established in 1659 by
J.Harrington to inculcate the democratic doctrine of election of the
principal officers of the state by ballot, and the annual retirement of
a portion of Parliament.
Ro"ta (?), n. (Mus.) A species of zither, played like a guitar, used in
the Middle Ages in church music; -- written also rotta.
Ro"ta*cism (?), n. See Rhotacism.