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Bottom
BOT'TOM, n.
1. The lowest part of any thing; as the bottom of a well, vat or ship; the bottom of a hill.
2. The ground under any body of water; as the bottom of the sea, of a river or lake.
3. The foundation or ground work of any thing, as of an edifice,or of any system or moral subject; the base, or that which supports any superstructure.
4. A low ground; a dale; a valley; applied in the U. States to the flat lands adjoining rivers, etc. It is so used in some parts of England.
5. The deepest part; that which is most remote from the view; as, let us examine this subject to the bottom.
6. Bound; limit.
There is no bottom in my voluptuousness.
7. The utmost extent or depth of cavity, or of intellect, whether deep or shallow.
I do see the bottom of justice Shallow.
8. The foundation, considered as the cause, spring or origin; the first moving cause; as, a foreign prince is at the bottom of the confederacy.
9. A ship or vessel. Goods imported in foreign bottoms pay a higher duty, than those imported in our own. Hence, a state of hazard,chance or risk; but in this sense it is used chiefly or solely in the singular. We say, venture not too much in one bottom; that is, do not hazard too much at a single risk.
10. A ball of thread.
11. The bottom of a lane or alley, is the lowest end. This phrase supposed a declivity; but it is often used for the most remote part, when there is very little declivity.
12. The bottom of beer, or other liquor,is the grounds or dregs.
13. In the language of jockeys, stamina, native strength; as a horse of good bottom.
BOT'TOM, v.t. To found or build upon; to fix upon as a support; followed by on; as, sound reasoning is bottomed on just premises.
1. To furnish with a seat or bottom; as, to bottom a chair.
2. To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread.
BOT'TOM, v.i. To rest upon, as its ultimate support.
Find on what foundation a proposition bottoms.
bottom appears in definitions for these words:
Abaddon Abase Abdomen Abyss Acorus Active Adown Aground Alembic Aludel Alveary Anaclastic Angel Apollyon Arum Astragal Ball Ballast Bank Barnacle Base Basis Bassoon Bilge Bilge-water Biliary Bolt-rope Boom Bootlessly Borax Bottom Bottomed Bottoming Bottomless Bottomry Brail Bream Buntlines But Butt Button Calyx Cart-wright Cartouch Catch-word Cavezon Chair Cincture Coin Colander Collet Colon Compass Copper Copper-bottomed Couch Counter Cradle Creeper Crucible Cyma Cymatium Dabbler Dead Depth Depuration Dichotomous Down Drab Drabler Drag Dragnet Dredging-machine Dregs Dunnage Echinus Effigy Ever False Fathom Fathomless Feculence Filiform Find Flat-bottomed Floor Flooring Flow Foot Ford Fother Foul Foulness Full-bottom Full-bottomed Fund Gally Garboard Grave Gravel-walk Grope Ground Groundage Groundling Gurgle Hautboy Hog Hold Home Hydroscope Hypothecation Keckle Keel Keelhaul Kettle-drum Kevel Keystone Leak Lees Lock Low Meadow Mooring Mud Muddy-headed Narrows Order Orthography Overset Palisade Pancreas Passive Pay Perforate Pile Piston Pitch Planipetalous Plinth Plowshare Pontee Precipitable Precipitance Precipitate Precipitation Probe Profound Pump Quarter Ratchet Reach Reef Reefed Regulus Remora Reside Residence Retina Rip Ripple Root Rudder Run Scooping Scow Scuttle Scuttled Scuttling Sediment Set Settle Settlement Sheathing Shoe Shot Shrub Side Sieve Signature Sinus Skep Sofa Sole Sound Soundings Spring Stamp Stool Strath Streak String Stuff Subside Subulate Sump Superficially Supplant Supposal Surf Survey Sweep Tack Talon Teredo Threshhold Ticklish Tilled Tillering Tomb Trip Tuck Tumble Unbottomed Undergird Unexhausted Unseated Venture Wade Water-line Well Well-room Wind Withers Worm Xiphoid Zest
Abaddon Abase Abdomen Abyss Acorus Active Adown Aground Alembic Aludel Alveary Anaclastic Angel Apollyon Arum Astragal Ball Ballast Bank Barnacle Base Basis Bassoon Bilge Bilge-water Biliary Bolt-rope Boom Bootlessly Borax Bottom Bottomed Bottoming Bottomless Bottomry Brail Bream Buntlines But Butt Button Calyx Cart-wright Cartouch Catch-word Cavezon Chair Cincture Coin Colander Collet Colon Compass Copper Copper-bottomed Couch Counter Cradle Creeper Crucible Cyma Cymatium Dabbler Dead Depth Depuration Dichotomous Down Drab Drabler Drag Dragnet Dredging-machine Dregs Dunnage Echinus Effigy Ever False Fathom Fathomless Feculence Filiform Find Flat-bottomed Floor Flooring Flow Foot Ford Fother Foul Foulness Full-bottom Full-bottomed Fund Gally Garboard Grave Gravel-walk Grope Ground Groundage Groundling Gurgle Hautboy Hog Hold Home Hydroscope Hypothecation Keckle Keel Keelhaul Kettle-drum Kevel Keystone Leak Lees Lock Low Meadow Mooring Mud Muddy-headed Narrows Order Orthography Overset Palisade Pancreas Passive Pay Perforate Pile Piston Pitch Planipetalous Plinth Plowshare Pontee Precipitable Precipitance Precipitate Precipitation Probe Profound Pump Quarter Ratchet Reach Reef Reefed Regulus Remora Reside Residence Retina Rip Ripple Root Rudder Run Scooping Scow Scuttle Scuttled Scuttling Sediment Set Settle Settlement Sheathing Shoe Shot Shrub Side Sieve Signature Sinus Skep Sofa Sole Sound Soundings Spring Stamp Stool Strath Streak String Stuff Subside Subulate Sump Superficially Supplant Supposal Surf Survey Sweep Tack Talon Teredo Threshhold Ticklish Tilled Tillering Tomb Trip Tuck Tumble Unbottomed Undergird Unexhausted Unseated Venture Wade Water-line Well Well-room Wind Withers Worm Xiphoid Zest
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