Definition of bottom

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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..

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Boottopping :: Boottopping (n.) The act or process of daubing a vessel's bottom near the surface of the water with a mixture of tallow, sulphur, and resin, as a temporary protection against worms, after the slime, shells, etc., have been scraped off..
Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) The lowest, or bottom, tier of casks..
Tops-and-bottoms :: Tops-and-bottoms (n. pl.) Small rolls of dough, baked, cut in halves, and then browned in an oven, -- used as food for infants..
Bummery :: Bummery (n.) See Bottomery.
Grapeshot :: Grapeshot (n.) A cluster, usually nine in number, of small iron balls, put together by means of cast-iron circular plates at top and bottom, with two rings, and a central connecting rod, in order to be used as a charge for a cannon. Formerly grapeshot were inclosed in canvas bags..
Set :: Set (v. t.) To cause to sit; to make to assume a specified position or attitude; to give site or place to; to place; to put; to fix; as, to set a house on a stone foundation; to set a book on a shelf; to set a dish on a table; to set a chest or trunk on its bottom or on end..
Intervale :: Intervale (n.) A tract of low ground between hills, or along the banks of a stream, usually alluvial land, enriched by the overflowings of the river, or by fertilizing deposits of earth from the adjacent hills. Cf. Bottom, n., 7..
Sieve :: Sieve (n.) A utensil for separating the finer and coarser parts of a pulverized or granulated substance from each other. It consist of a vessel, usually shallow, with the bottom perforated, or made of hair, wire, or the like, woven in meshes..
Unbottomed :: Unbottomed (a.) Having no bottom; bottomless.
Patela :: Patela (n.) A large flat-bottomed trading boat peculiar to the river Ganges; -- called also puteli.
Ceriph :: Ceriph (n.) One of the fine lines of a letter, esp. one of the fine cross strokes at the top and bottom of letters..
Rudiment :: Rudiment (n.) That which is unformed or undeveloped; the principle which lies at the bottom of any development; an unfinished beginning.
Funnelform :: Funnelform (a.) Having the form of a funnel, or tunnel; that is, expanding gradually from the bottom upward, as the corolla of some flowers; infundibuliform..
Downhill :: Downhill (adv.) Towards the bottom of a hill; as, water runs downhill..
Pale :: Pale (n.) A pointed stake or slat, either driven into the ground, or fastened to a rail at the top and bottom, for fencing or inclosing; a picket..
Tompion :: Tompion (n.) The iron bottom to which grapeshot are fixed.
Tub :: Tub (n.) An open wooden vessel formed with staves, bottom, and hoops; a kind of short cask, half barrel, or firkin, usually with but one head, -- used for various purposes..
Chauffer :: Chauffer (n.) A table stove or small furnace, usually a cylindrical box of sheet iron, with a grate at the bottom, and an open top..
Residence :: Residence (n.) That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum..
Thoroughgoing :: Thoroughgoing (a.) Going through, or to the end or bottom; very thorough; complete..
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