dry-rot

A crust of conoidical shells covered the rock at certain points, the dry rot of the granite.

The Spanish War had done more than give straps to a lot of civilians with pulls; it had eradicated the dry-rot from the Army.

It is infested by the dry rot, and ready to tumble about our ears without their immediate help.

I have what goes with all artist-matter—long periods of dry-rot when having nothing ripe to write I write nothing.

Next to dry rot and vermin, a tenant with “a tongue” is the greatest enemy of the landlord of mean streets.