bottom

1. 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. Source: opted

2. 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. Source: opted

3. n. That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork. Source: opted

4. n. The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, sea. Source: opted

5. n. The fundament; the buttocks. Source: opted

6. n. An abyss. Source: opted

7. n. Low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river; low-lying ground; a dale; a valley. Source: opted

8. n. The part of a ship which is ordinarily under water; hence, the vessel itself; a ship. Source: opted

9. n. Power of endurance; as, a horse of a good bottom. Source: opted

10. n. Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment. Source: opted

11. a. Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices. Source: opted

12. v. t. To found or build upon; to fix upon as a support; -- followed by on or upon. Source: opted

13. v. t. To furnish with a bottom; as, to bottom a chair. Source: opted

14. v. t. To reach or get to the bottom of. Source: opted

15. v. i. To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded; -- usually with on or upon. Source: opted

16. 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. Source: opted

17. n. A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon. Source: opted

18. v. t. To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread. Source: opted

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