rotten : Idioms & Phrases
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Rotten borough
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noun an English parliamentary constituency with few electors
WordNet
- . See under
Borough .
Webster 1913
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.
