bottom (botum)

and a. [E. dial. also bot ton; = Sc. boddem, boddum, etc., Ye consider not the matter to the bottom . Latimer , 5th Serm. bef. Edw. VI., 1549. Objections built on the same bottom . Atterbury . All customs were founded upon some bottom of reason. Sir T. Browne , Urn-burial, i 2. The ground under any body of water: as, & rocky bottom; a sandy bottom; to lie on the bottom of the sea.-3. In phys. geog., the low The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary bottom land adjacent to a river, especially when the river is large and the level area is of considerable extent. Also called bottom - land. On both shores of that fruitful bottom are still to be seen the marks of ancient edifices. Add is on , Travels in Italy. For weeks together Indians would have their squalid camps about Illinois Town, and in the bottoms toward the Big Mound. W. Barrows, Oregon, p. 103. 4. In mining, that which is lowest; in Pennsylvania coal - mining, the floor, bottom-rock, or stratum on which a coal-seam rests.-5. The lower or hinder extremity of the trunk of an animal; the buttocks; the sitting part of man. Hence-6. The portion of a chair on which one sits; the seat. No two chairs were alike; such high backs and low backs, and leather bottoms and worsted bottoms. Irving. 7. That part of a ship which is below the wales; hence, the ship itself. They had a well-rigg'd bottom , fully mann'd. 639 They (worsted goods] should be bottomed with indigo. Fibre and Fabric , V. 16. II. in trans. 1. To rest; be based. On what foundation any proposition advanced bottoms . boudoir