n. The lowest or deepest part of anything, as distinguished from the top; utmost depth, either literally or figuratively; base; foundation; root: as, the bottom of a hill, a tower, a tree, of a well or other cavity, of a page or a column of figures.n. The ground under any body of water: as, a rocky bottom; a sandy bottom; to lie on the bottom of the sea.n. In physical geography, the low land adjacent to a river, especially when the river is large and the level area is of considerable extent. Also called bottom-land.n. In mining, that which is lowest; in Pennsylvania coal-mining, the floor, bottom-rock, or stratum on which a coal-seam rests.n. The lower or hinder extremity of the trunk of an animal; the buttocks; the sitting part of man.n. The portion of a chair on which one sits; the seat.n. That part of a ship which is below the wales; hence, the ship itself.n. The heavy impurities which collect at the bottoms of vessels in which fluids are left to settle: as, “the bottom of beer,”n. plural The residuum, consisting of impure metal, often found at the bottom of a smelting-furnace when the operation has not been skilfully conducted: chiefly used in reference to copper-smelting.n. Power of endurance; stamina; native strength: as, a horse of good bottom.n. Milit.: A circular disk with holes to hold the rods in the formation of a gabion.n. Same as bottom-plate.n. In shoe-making, the sole, heel, and shank of a shoe; all that is below the upper.n. In railroads, the ballasting about the ties.n. A platform suspended from a scale, on which the thing to be weighed is placed.— A clue or nucleus on which to wind thread; the thread so wound.n. The cocoon of a silkworm.n. In dyeing, a color applied to a fabric with a view of giving a peculiar hue to a dye which is to be subsequently applied.[Attrib. use of noun.] Situated at the bottom; lowest; undermost; fundamental: as, the bottom stair; the bottom coin of a pile.To furnish with a bottom: as, to bottom a shoe or a chair.To found or build upon; fix upon as a support; base.To fathom; reach or get to the bottom of.To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread.In dyeing, to dye first with a certain color in preparation for another.To rest; be based.To strike against the bottom or end: as, a piston bottoms when it strikes against the end of the cylinder.n. The lowest landing in a shaft or incline; the lowest working in a mine.n. The lower portion of a seam or bed, as of coal.n. In gold-mining, the old river-bed upon which the wash-dirt rests, and upon which the richest alluvial gold is found. Sometimes called the gutter.n. In golf, a backward rotation of the ball which tends to check its motion after it touches the ground.n. In saddlery, the portion of a martingale which passes between the horse's belly and the belly-band.In botany, to form a bulb or other underground expansion, as an onion.In gold-mining, to get to the bed-rock, or clay, below which it is useless to sink.
