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Stale :: Stale (v. i.) Having lost the life or graces of youth; worn out; decayed.

Waste :: Waste (v.) The act of wasting, or the state of being wasted; a squandering; needless destruction; useless consumption or expenditure; devastation; loss without equivalent gain; gradual loss or decrease, by use, wear, or decay; as, a waste of property, time, labor, words, etc..

Durability :: Durability (n.) The state or quality of being durable; the power of uninterrupted or long continuance in any condition; the power of resisting agents or influences which tend to cause changes, decay, or dissolution; lastingness..

Decay :: Decay (n.) Gradual failure of health, strength, soundness, prosperity, or of any species of excellence or perfection; tendency toward dissolution or extinction; corruption; rottenness; decline; deterioration; as, the decay of the body; the decay of virtue; the decay of the Roman empire; a castle in decay..

Decrepitude :: Decrepitude (n.) The broken state produced by decay and the infirmities of age; infirm old age.

Dilapidated :: Dilapidated (a.) Decayed; fallen into partial ruin; injured by bad usage or neglect.

Agaric :: Agaric (n.) An old name for several species of Polyporus, corky fungi growing on decaying wood..

Xylophagides :: Xylophagides (n. pl.) A tribe or family of dipterous flies whose larvae live in decayed wood. Some of the tropical species are very large.

Conservable :: Conservable (a.) Capable of being preserved from decay or injury.

Druxy :: Druxy (a.) Having decayed spots or streaks of a whitish color; -- said of timber.

Incorrupt :: Incorrupt (a.) Not affected with corruption or decay; unimpaired; not marred or spoiled.

Mortify :: Mortify (v. i.) To be subdued; to decay, as appetites, desires, etc..

Toadstool :: Toadstool (n.) A name given to many umbrella-shaped fungi, mostly of the genus Agaricus. The species are almost numberless. They grow on decaying organic matter..

Touchwood :: Touchwood (n.) Wood so decayed as to serve for tinder; spunk, or punk..

Welk :: Welk (v. i.) To wither; to fade; also, to decay; to decline; to wane..

Preserve :: Preserve (v. t.) To save from decay by the use of some preservative substance, as sugar, salt, etc.; to season and prepare for remaining in a good state, as fruits, meat, etc.; as, to preserve peaches or grapes..

Ulmin :: Ulmin (n.) A brown amorphous substance found in decaying vegetation. Cf. Humin.

Predecay :: Predecay (n.) Premature decay.

Nitrocalcite :: Nitrocalcite (n.) Nitrate of calcium, a substance having a grayish white color, occuring in efforescences on old walls, and in limestone caves, especially where there exists decaying animal matter..

Dilapidation :: Dilapidation (n.) The act of dilapidating, or the state of being dilapidated, reduced to decay, partially ruined, or squandered..

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