Bottom(a.) Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices.
Bottom(n.) A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
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(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(v. t.) To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread.
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.
Bottomed(a.) Having at the bottom, or as a bottom; resting upon a bottom; grounded; -- mostly, in composition; as, sharp-bottomed; well-bottomed.
Bottomed(imp. & p. p.) of Bottom
Bottoming(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bottom
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