Rot"ta (?), n. (Mus.) See Rota.
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.
||Rot"u*la (?), n. [L., a little wheel; cf. It. rotula.] (Anat.) The
||patella, or kneepan.
Rot"u*lar (?), a. [L. rotula, dim. of rota wheel.] (Anat.) Of or
pertaining to the rotula, or kneepan.
Ro*tund" (?), a. [L. rotundus. See Round, and cf. Rotunda.] 1. Round;
circular; spherical.