*otten*

a. Bloodshot. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. of Flote, v. t. Skimmed. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. of Forget. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. of Get. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ D. Hottentot; -- so called from hot and tot, two syllables of frequent occurrence in their language. Wedgwood. ] 1. (Ethnol.) One of a degraded and savage race of South Africa, with yellowish brown complexion, high cheek bones, and wooly hair growing in tufts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The language of the Hottentots, which is remarkable for its clicking sounds; the Khoisan language. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

Hottentot cherry (Bot.), a South African plant of the genus Cassine (Cassine maurocenia), having handsome foliage, with generally inconspicuous white or green flowers. Loudon. --
Hottentot's bread. (Bot.) See Elephant's foot (a), under Elephant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A term employed to describe one of the varieties of stammering. Tylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. obtained illegally or by improper means; as, ill-gotten gains.
Syn. -- dirty. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. born in wedlock; legitimate; enjoying full filial rights; not illegitimate; -- of people. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } p. a. 1. Unlawfully or irregularly begotten; of bad or disreputable origin; pernicious. “Valor misbegot.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Poorly designed or planned; badly carried out; ill-conceived. [ PJC ]

a. Unjustly gotten. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of nooks, angles, or corners. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

That nook-shotten isle of Albion. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate
As reek of the rotten fens. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

(b) Not firm or trusty; unsound; defective; treacherous; unsafe; as, a rotten plank, bone, stone. “The deepness of the rotten way.” Knolles. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Putrefied; decayed; carious; defective; unsound; corrupt; deceitful; treacherous. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Rot"ten*ly, adv. -- Rot"ten*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Begotten by one's self, or one's own powers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Properly p. p. of shoot; AS. scoten, sceoten, p. p. of sceótan. ] 1. Having ejected the spawn; as, a shotten herring. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Shot out of its socket; dislocated, as a bone. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Sprained in the shoulder, as a horse. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Pref. un- not + begot, begotten. ] Not begot; not yet generated; also, having never been generated; self-existent; eternal. [ 1913 Webster ]