Definition of bottom

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Bottom (n.) The part of a ship which is ordinarily under water; hence, the vessel itself; a ship..

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Flooring :: Flooring (n.) A platform; the bottom of a room; a floor; pavement. See Floor, n..
Full-bottomed :: Full-bottomed (a.) Of great capacity below the water line.
Hypothecate :: Hypothecate (v. t.) To subject, as property, to liability for a debt or engagement without delivery of possession or transfer of title; to pledge without delivery of possession; to mortgage, as ships, or other personal property; to make a contract by bottomry. See Hypothecation, Bottomry..
Surrogate :: Surrey (n.) A four-wheeled pleasure carriage, (commonly two-seated) somewhat like a phaeton, but having a straight bottom..
Foul :: Foul (superl.) Covered with, or containing, extraneous matter which is injurious, noxious, offensive, or obstructive; filthy; dirty; not clean; polluted; nasty; defiled; as, a foul cloth; foul hands; a foul chimney; foul air; a ship's bottom is foul when overgrown with barnacles; a gun becomes foul from repeated firing; a well is foul with polluted water..
Ploc :: Ploc (n.) A mixture of hair and tar for covering the bottom of a ship.
Pentacrostic :: Pentacrostic (n.) A set of verses so disposed that the name forming the subject of the acrostic occurs five times -- the whole set of verses being divided into five different parts from top to bottom.
Globigerina :: Globigerina (n.) A genus of small Foraminifera, which live abundantly at or near the surface of the sea. Their dead shells, falling to the bottom, make up a large part of the soft mud, generally found in depths below 3,000 feet, and called globigerina ooze. See Illust. of Foraminifera..
Metal :: Metal (v. t.) To cover with metal; as, to metal a ship's bottom; to metal a road..
Water Ouzel :: Water ouzel () Any one of several species of small insessorial birds of the genus Cinclus (or Hydrobates), especially the European water ousel (C. aquaticus), and the American water ousel (C. Mexicanus). These birds live about the water, and are in the habit of walking on the bottom of streams beneath the water in search of food..
Punt :: Punt (v. t.) To propel, as a boat in shallow water, by pushing with a pole against the bottom; to push or propel (anything) with exertion..
Nowel :: Nowel (n.) The bottom part of a mold or of a flask, in distinction from the cope; the drag..
Bottom :: Bottom (a.) Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices..
Ceriph :: Ceriph (n.) One of the fine lines of a letter, esp. one of the fine cross strokes at the top and bottom of letters..
Mould :: Mould (n.) A frame with a wire cloth bottom, on which the pump is drained to form a sheet, in making paper by hand..
Bottom :: Bottom (n.) Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
Drag :: Drag (v. t.) The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope..
Floor :: Floor (n.) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
Bottomed :: Bottomed (imp. & p. p.) of Botto.
Crucible :: Crucible (n.) A hollow place at the bottom of a furnace, to receive the melted metal..
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