Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Tripoli"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Tripoli
n 1: the capital and largest city of Libya; in northwest Libya on
the Mediterranean Sea; founded by the Phoenicians in the
7th century BC [syn: {Tripoli}, {capital of Libya}]
2: a port in northern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea [syn: {Tarabulus},
{Tripoli}]
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