BPage 230
- English Word Bottom Definition That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork.
- English Word Bottom Definition The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, sea.
- English Word Bottom Definition The fundament; the buttocks.
- English Word Bottom Definition An abyss.
- English Word Bottom Definition Low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river; low-lying ground; a dale; a valley.
- English Word Bottom Definition The part of a ship which is ordinarily under water; hence, the vessel itself; a ship.
- English Word Bottom Definition Power of endurance; as, a horse of a good bottom.
- English Word Bottom Definition Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
- English Word Bottom Definition Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices.
- English Word Bottom Definition To found or build upon; to fix upon as a support; -- followed by on or upon.
- English Word Bottom Definition To furnish with a bottom; as, to bottom a chair.
- English Word Bottom Definition To reach or get to the bottom of.
- English Word Bottom Definition To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded; -- usually with on or upon.
- English Word Bottom Definition 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.
- English Word Bottom Definition A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
- English Word Bottom Definition To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread.
- English Word Bottomed Definition of Bottom
- English Word Bottomed Definition Having at the bottom, or as a bottom; resting upon a bottom; grounded; -- mostly, in composition; as, sharp-bottomed; well-bottomed.
- English Word Bottoming Definition of Bottom
- English Word Bottomless Definition Without a bottom; hence, fathomless; baseless; as, a bottomless abyss.
- English Word Bottomry Definition A contract in the nature of a mortgage, by which the owner of a ship, or the master as his agent, hypothecates and binds the ship (and sometimes the accruing freight) as security for the repayment of money advanced or lent for the use of the ship, if she terminates her voyage successfully. If the ship is lost by perils of the sea, the lender loses the money; but if the ship arrives safe, he is to receive the money lent, with the interest or premium stipulated, although it may, and usually does, exceed the legal rate of interest. See Hypothecation.
- English Word Bottone Definition Having a bud or button, or a kind of trefoil, at the end; furnished with knobs or buttons.
- English Word Bottony Definition Alt. of Bottone
- English Word Botts Definition See Bots.
- English Word Botuliform Definition Having the shape of a sausage.
- English Word Bouch Definition A mouth.
- English Word Bouch Definition An allowance of meat and drink for the tables of inferior officers or servants in a nobleman's palace or at court.
- English Word Bouche Definition Same as Bush, a lining.
- English Word Bouche Definition Same as Bush, to line.
- English Word Bouche Definition Alt. of Bouch