Or dive into the bottom of the deep. --Shak.
2. 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.
Barrels with the bottom knocked out. --Macaulay.
No two chairs were alike; such high backs and low
backs and leather bottoms and worsted bottoms. --W.
Irving.
3. That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal
or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork.
4. The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, sea.
5. The fundament; the buttocks.
7. Low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river;
low-lying ground; a dale; a valley. ``The bottoms and the
high grounds.'' --Stoddard.
8. (Naut.) The part of a ship which is ordinarily under
water; hence, the vessel itself; a ship.
My ventures are not in one bottom trusted. --Shak.
Not to sell the teas, but to return them to London
in the same bottoms in which they were shipped.
--Bancroft.
{Full bottom}, a hull of such shape as permits carrying a
large amount of merchandise.
9. Power of endurance; as, a horse of a good bottom.
10. Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment. --Johnson.
{At bottom}, {At the bottom}, at the foundation or basis; in
reality. ``He was at the bottom a good man.'' --J. F.
Cooper.
{To be at the bottom of}, to be the cause or originator of;
to be the source of. [Usually in an opprobrious sense.]
--J. H. Newman.
He was at the bottom of many excellent counsels.
--Addison.
{To go to the bottom}, to sink; esp. to be wrecked.
{To touch bottom}, to reach the lowest point; to find
something on which to rest.
Silkworms finish their bottoms in . . . fifteen days.
--Mortimer.
As you unwind her love from him, Lest it should ravel
and be good to none, You must provide to bottom it on
me. --Shak.
{Bottom glade}, a low glade or open place; a valley; a dale.
--Milton.
{Bottom grass}, grass growing on bottom lands.
{Bottom land}. See 1st {Bottom}, n., 7.
Action is supposed to be bottomed upon principle.
--Atterbury.
Those false and deceiving grounds upon which many
bottom their eternal state]. --South.
2. To furnish with a bottom; as, to bottom a chair.
3. To reach or get to the bottom of. --Smiles.
Find on what foundation any proposition bottoms.
--Locke.
2. 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.