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2,041 words match “ROT”

ESCHAROTIC a. 2 definitions
Serving or tending to form an eschar;; producing a scar; caustic.
FERROTYPE n.
A photographic picture taken on an iron plate by a collodion process; -- familiarly called tintype.
FROTE v.
To rub or wear by rubbing; to chafe. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
FROTERER n.
One who frotes; one who rubs or chafes. [Obs.] Marston.
FROTH n. 7 definitions
ow of wit or eloquence; rhetoric without thought. Johnson. It was a long speech, but all froth. L'Estrange.
FROTHILY adv.
In a frothy manner.
FROTHINESS n.
State or quality of being frothy.
FROTHING n.
Exaggerated declamation; rant.
FROTHLESS a.
Free from froth.
FROTHY a. 3 definitions
Full of foam or froth, or consisting of froth or light bubbles; spumous; foamy.
GARROT n. 2 definitions
A stick or small wooden cylinder used for tightening a bandage, in order to compress the arteries of a limb.
GARROTE v. 2 definitions
To strangle with the garrote; hence, to seize by the throat, from behind, with a view to strangle and rob.
GARROTER n.
One who seizes a person by the throat from behind, with a view to strangle and rob him.
GASTROELYTROTOMY n.
The operation of cutting into the upper part of the vagina, through the abdomen (without opening the peritoneum), for the purpose of removing a fetus. It is a substitute for the Cæsarean operation, and less dangerous.
GASTROHYSTEROTOMY n.
Cæsarean section. See under Cæsarean.
GASTROTOMY n.
A cutting into, or opening of, the abdomen or the stomach.
GASTROTRICHA n.
a on the ventral side. The group is regarded as an ancestral or synthetic one, related to rotifers and annelids.
GASTROTROCHA n.
A form of annelid larva having cilia on the ventral side.
GROT n.
A grotto. [Poetic] Milton.
GROT; GROTE n.
A groat. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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