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a. Living among bogs. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., prop., carrot. ] A cylindrical roll of tobacco; as, a carotte of perique. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. any of several lichens of the genus Parmelia from which reddish brown or purple dyes are made. [ Also spelled crottle and crotal. ]
Syn. -- . [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. see crottal.
Syn. -- crottal, crotal. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. pl. [ Gael. crotal. ] A name given to various lichens gathered for dyeing. See crottal. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Grottoes [ Formerly grotta, fr. It. grotta, LL. grupta, fr. L. crypta a concealed subterranean passage, vault, cavern, Gr. kry`pth, fr. krypto`s concealed, fr. kry`ptein to conceal. Cf. Grot, Crypt. ] A natural covered opening in the earth; a cave; also, an artificial recess, cave, or cavernlike apartment. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Artificial and ornamental rockwork in imitation of a grotto. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mus.) See Rota. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate
As reek of the rotten fens. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

(b) Not firm or trusty; unsound; defective; treacherous; unsafe; as, a rotten plank, bone, stone. “The deepness of the rotten way.” Knolles. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Putrefied; decayed; carious; defective; unsound; corrupt; deceitful; treacherous. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Rot"ten*ly, adv. -- Rot"ten*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Dim. of throat. See Throat. ] 1. The windpipe, or trachea; the weasand. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Steam Engine) The throttle valve. [ 1913 Webster ]

Throttle lever (Steam Engine), the hand lever by which a throttle valve is moved, especially in a locomotive. --
Throttle valve (Steam Engine), a valve moved by hand or by a governor for regulating the supply of steam to the steam chest. In one form it consists of a disk turning on a transverse axis. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Throttled p. pr. & vb. n. Throttling ] 1. To compress the throat of; to choke; to strangle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Grant him this, and the Parliament hath no more freedom than if it sat in his noose, which, when he pleases to draw together with one twitch of his negative, shall throttle a whole nation, to the wish of Caligula, in one neck. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Throttle their practiced accent in their fears. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To shut off, or reduce flow of, as steam to an engine. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To have the throat obstructed so as to be in danger of suffocation; to choke; to suffocate. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To breathe hard, as when nearly suffocated. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, throttles, or chokes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) See Flasher, 3 (b). [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One that trots; especially, a horse trained to be driven in trotting matches. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The foot of an animal, especially that of a sheep; also, humorously, the human foot. [ 1913 Webster ]