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