| Bottom |
n. |
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. |
| Bottom |
n. |
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. |
| Bottom |
n. |
That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork. |
| Bottom |
n. |
The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, sea. |
| Bottom |
n. |
The fundament; the buttocks. |
| Bottom |
n. |
An abyss. |
| Bottom |
n. |
Low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river; low-lying ground; a dale; a valley. |
| Bottom |
n. |
The part of a ship which is ordinarily under water; hence, the vessel itself; a ship. |
| Bottom |
n. |
Power of endurance; as, a horse of a good bottom. |
| Bottom |
n. |
Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment. |
| Bottom |
a. |
Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices. |
| Bottom |
v. t. |
To found or build upon; to fix upon as a support;
followed by on or upon. |
| Bottom |
v. t. |
To furnish with a bottom; as, to bottom a chair. |
| Bottom |
v. t. |
To reach or get to the bottom of. |
| Bottom |
v. i. |
To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded;
usually with on or upon. |
| Bottom |
v. i. |
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. |
| Bottom |
n. |
A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon. |
| Bottom |
v. t. |
To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread. |
