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to decomposition or decay; decomposed; rotten; -- said of animal or vegetable matter; as, putrid flesh. See Putrefaction.

The quality of being putrid; putrefaction; rottenness.

Putridity. Floyer.

Having lost the power of development, and become rotten, as eggs; putrid. Hence: Unfruitful or confused, as brains; muddled. Dryden.

Characterized by the absence of power or force. Adynamic fevers, malignant or putrid fevers attended with great muscular debility.

A form of micrococcus, found in putrid meat infusions, occurring in peculiar masses, each of which is inclosed in a hyaline capsule and contains a large number of spherical micrococci.

as an unfailing antidote for poison, and a certain remedy for eruptive, pestilential, or putrid diseases. Hence: Any antidote or panacea.

A form of scarlet fever characterized by ulcerated or putrid sore throat.

Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound. Who with such corrupt and pestilent bread would feed them. Knolles.

The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration. The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject of very universal inquiry; for corruption is a reciprocal to "generation". Bacon.…

Infection of the blood with ichorous or putrid substances.

olid crystalline substance, C5H13NO2, found in the toadstool (Agaricus muscarius), and in putrid fish. It is a typical ptomaine, and a violent poison.

A toxic alkaloid (ptomaine) obtained from putrid flesh and from herring brines. As a poison it is said to execute profuse diarrhoea, vomiting, and intestinal inflammation. Brieger.

The quality or state of being putrid.

To render putrid; to cause to decay offensively; to cause to be decomposed; to cause to rot.

To become putrescent or putrid; to putrefy.

Becoming putrid or rotten. Externally powerful, although putrescent at the core. Motley.

Capable of putrefaction; liable to become putrid; as, putrescible substances.

Putrid. [Obs.] Marston.

To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes; as, to rot vegetable fiber.