Tripoli : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Tripoli	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for Tripoli
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tripoli n a weathered and decomposed siliceous limestone; in powdered form it is used in polishing Synonym(s): rottenstone, tripoli the capital and chief port and largest city of Libya; in northwestern Libya on the Mediterranean Sea; founded by the Phoenicians in the 7th century BC Synonym(s): Tripoli, Tarabulus Al-Gharb, capital of Libya a port city and commercial center in northwestern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea Synonym(s): Tarabulus, Tripoli, Tarabulus Ash-Sham, Trablous
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rotten \Rot"ten\, 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. You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate As reek of the rotten fens. --Shak. (b) Not firm or trusty; unsound; defective; treacherous; unsafe; as, a rotten plank, bone, stone. [bd]The deepness of the rotten way.[b8] --Knolles. {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. Syn: Putrefied; decayed; carious; defective; unsound; corrupt; deceitful; treacherous. -- {Rot"tenly}, adv. -- {Rot"tenness}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tripoli \Trip"o*li\, n. (Min.) An earthy substance originally brought from Tripoli, used in polishing stones and metals. It consists almost wholly of the siliceous shells of diatoms.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Tripoli, IA (city, FIPS 78915) Location: 42.80976 N, 92.25758 W Population (1990): 1188 (546 housing units) Area: 3.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 50676 Tripoli, WI Zip code(s): 54564