Part 1303

<blockquote>Or dive into the <b>bottom</b> of the deep. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>Barrels with the <b>bottom</b> knocked out. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>No two chairs were alike; such high backs and low backs and leather <b>bottoms</b> and worsted <b>bottoms</b>. <i>W. Irving.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, sea.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>The fundament; the buttocks.</def>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>An abyss.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Dryden.</i>

<p><b>7.</b> <def>Low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river; low-lying ground; a dale; a valley.</def> "The <i>bottoms</i> and the high grounds."

<i>Stoddard.</i>

<p><b>8.</b> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>The part of a ship which is ordinarily under water; hence, the vessel itself; a ship.</def>

<blockquote>My ventures are not in one <b>bottom</b> trusted. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Not to sell the teas, but to return them to London in the same <b>bottoms</b> in which they were shipped. <i>Bancroft.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Full bottom</col>, <cd>a hull of such shape as permits carrying a large amount of merchandise.</cd></cs>

<p><b>9.</b> <def>Power of endurance; <as>as, a horse of a good <ex>bottom</ex></as>.</def>

<p><b>10.</b> <def>Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.</def>

<i>Johnson.</i>

<cs><mcol><col>At bottom</col>, <col>At the bottom</col></mcol>, <cd>at the foundation or basis; in reality. "He was <i>at the bottom<i> a good man."</cd> <i>J. F. Cooper.</i> -- <col>To be at the bottom of</col>, <cd>to be the cause or originator of; to be the source of.</cd> <mark>[Usually in an opprobrious sense.]</mark> <i>J. H. Newman.</i>

<blockquote>He <b>was at the bottom of</b> many excellent counsels. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

-- <col>To go to the bottom</col>, <cd>to sink; esp. to be wrecked.</cd> -- <col>To touch bottom</col>, <cd>to reach the lowest point; to find something on which to rest.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Bot"tom</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; <as>as, <ex>bottom</ex> rock; the <ex>bottom</ex> board of a wagon box; <ex>bottom</ex> prices.</as></def>

<cs><col>Bottom glade</col>, <cd>a low glade or open place; a valley; a dale.</cd></cs>

<i>Milton.</i>

<cs>-<col>Bottom grass</col>, <cd>grass growing on bottom lands.</cd> -- <col>Bottom land</col>. <cd>See 1st <er>Bottom</er>, <tt>n.</tt>, 7.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Bot"tom</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Bottomed</er> (<?/); <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Bottoming</er>.]</def>