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The quality of being putrid; putrefaction; rottenness.

To make rotten. [Obs.] Well bet is rotten apple out of hoard, Than that it roty all the remenant. Chaucer.

The state of being a sluggard; sluggishness; sloth. Gower. Idleness is rotten sluggardy. Chaucer.

. The mandibles are large and branched, or forked, whence the name. The lava feeds on the rotten wood of dead trees. Called also horned bug, and horse beetle. -- Stag dance, a dance by men only. [slang, U.S.] -- Stag hog (Zoöl.), the babiroussa. -- Stag-horn coral (Zoöl.), any one of several species of large branchin…

fellow that had a deal of choice fruit, had not the heart to touch it till it began to be rotten. L'estrange.

decorate; to adorn; to invest; to embellish; as, to trim a hat. trim a Christmas tree. A rotten building newly trimmed over. Milton. I was trimmed in Julia's gown. Shak.