Bottom

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The fundament; the buttocks.

II. Bottom ·noun An Abyss.

III. Bottom ·noun Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.

IV. Bottom ·vt To reach or get to the bottom of.

V. Bottom ·noun A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.

VI. Bottom ·noun Power of endurance; as, a horse of a good bottom.

VII. Bottom ·vt To furnish with a bottom; as, to bottom a chair.

VIII. Bottom ·noun The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, sea.

IX. Bottom ·vt To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread.

X. Bottom ·vt To found or build upon; to fix upon as a support;

— followed by on or upon.

XI. Bottom ·noun The part of a ship which is ordinarily under water; hence, the vessel itself; a ship.

XII. Bottom ·noun Low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river; low-lying ground; a dale; a valley.

XIII. Bottom ·vi To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded;

— usually with on or upon.

XIV. Bottom ·noun That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork.

XV. Bottom ·noun The lowest part of anything; the foot; as, the bottom of a tree or well; the bottom of a hill, a lane, or a page.

XVI. Bottom ·adj Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices.

XVII. Bottom ·vi To reach or impinge against the bottom, so as to impede free action, as when the point of a cog strikes the bottom of a space between two other cogs, or a piston the end of a cylinder.

XVIII. Bottom ·noun The part of anything which is beneath the contents and supports them, as the part of a chair on which a person sits, the circular base or lower head of a cask or tub, or the plank floor of a ship's hold; the under surface.

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