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n. trousers with legs that flare; commonly worn as part of a sailor's uniform; -- such absurdly wide hems were also fashionable in the 1960s.
Syn. -- bellbottom trousers. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

, n. 1. (Bot.) an annual Eurasian plant (Centaurea cyanus) which grows in grain fields; -- called also bachelor's button. It receives its name from its blue bottle-shaped flowers. Varieties cultivated in North America have showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers
Syn. -- cornflower, bachelor's button. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

2. (Zool.) A large and troublesome species of blowfly (Musca vomitoria). Its body is steel blue. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. See Boot (for the foot.). ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A small boot; a lady's boot. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An appliance resembling a small boot furnished with straps, buckles, etc., used to correct or prevent distortions in the lower extremities of children. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. bote, botelle, OF. botel, bouteille, F. bouteille, fr. LL. buticula, dim. of butis, buttis, butta, flask. Cf. Butt a cask. ] 1. A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; as, to drink a bottle of wine. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in the bottle. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Bottle is much used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bottle ale, bottled ale. [ Obs. ] Shak. --
Bottle brush, a cylindrical brush for cleansing the interior of bottles. --
Bottle fish (Zool.), a kind of deep-sea eel (Saccopharynx ampullaceus), remarkable for its baglike gullet, which enables it to swallow fishes two or three times its won size. --
Bottle flower. (Bot.) Same as Bluebottle. --
Bottle glass, a coarse, green glass, used in the manufacture of bottles. Ure. --
Bottle gourd (Bot.), the common gourd or calabash (Lagenaria Vulgaris), whose shell is used for bottles, dippers, etc. --
Bottle grass (Bot.), a nutritious fodder grass (Setaria glauca and Setaria viridis); -- called also foxtail, and green foxtail. --
Bottle tit (Zool.), the European long-tailed titmouse; -- so called from the shape of its nest. --
Bottle tree (Bot.), an Australian tree (Sterculia rupestris), with a bottle-shaped, or greatly swollen, trunk. --
Feeding bottle,
Nursing bottle, a bottle with a rubber nipple (generally with an intervening tube), used in feeding infants. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bottled pos>p. pr. & vb. n. Bottling ] To put into bottles; to inclose in, or as in, a bottle or bottles; to keep or restrain as in a bottle; as, to bottle wine or porter; to bottle up one's wrath. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. botel, OF. botel, dim. of F. botte; cf. OHG. bozo bunch. See Boss stud. ] A bundle, esp. of hay. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] Chaucer. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft that is used to clean bottles. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a cap that seals a bottle. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. 1. Put into bottles; inclosed in bottles; pent up in, or as in, a bottle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having the shape of a bottle; protuberant. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. to feed with a bottle; -- of infants or baby animals. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. to train, manage or instruct (a person) with great attention to detail. [ PJC ]

n. the quantity contained in a bottle.
Syn. -- bottle. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Bot.) a European foxtail naturalized in North America; it is often a troublesome weed.
Syn. -- green bristlegrass, green foxtail, rough bristlegrass, bottle grass, Setaria viridis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

def>A dark shade of green, like that of bottle glass. -- Bot"tle-green`, a. [1913 Webster]

n. (Zool.) A cetacean allied to the grampus; -- called also bottle-nosed whale. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ There are several species so named, as the pilot whales, of the genus Globicephalus, and one or more species of Hyperoödon (Hyperoödon bidens, etc.), found on the European coast. See Blackfish, 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who attends a pugilist in a prize fight; -- so called from the bottle of water of which he has charge. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who assists or supports another in a contest; an abettor; a backer. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Lord Palmerston considered himself the bottleholder of oppressed states. The London Times. [ 1913 Webster ]

. 1. a location or situation in which otherwise rapid progress is impeded. [ PJC ]

2. a point at which road traffic slows due to congestion or narrowing of the roadway. [ PJC ]

3. an impasse. [ PJC ]

4. a narrowing.
Syn. -- constriction. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. same as obstruct; as, his laziness has bottlenecked our efforts to reform the system. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. to become narrower as one approaches a point; -- said of roads; as, right by the bridge, the road bottlenecks. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

. (Automobiles) An inswept frame. [ Colloq. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Having the nose bottle-shaped, or large at the end. Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) 1. A grey cetacean of the Dolphin family, of several species, as Delphinus Tursio and Lagenorhyncus leucopleurus, of Europe. Also Tursiops truncatus -- a synonym?
Syn. -- bottlenose dolphin. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. The puffin. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. a north Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead.
Syn. -- bottle-nosed whale, bottlenose whale, Hyperoodon ampullatus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who bottles wine, beer, soda water, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. A corkscrew. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. The act or the process of putting anything into bottles (as beer, mineral water, etc.) and sealing the bottles, as with a cork or a bottle cap. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. botum, botme, AS. botm; akin to OS. bodom, D. bodem, OHG. podam, G. boden, Icel. botn, Sw. botten, Dan. bund (for budn), L. fundus (for fudnus), Gr. pyqmh`n (for fyqmh`n), Skr. budhna (for bhudhna), and Ir. bonn sole of the foot, W. bon stem, base. √257. Cf. 4th Found, Fund, n. ] 1. The lowest part of anything; the foot; as, the bottom of a tree or well; the bottom of a hill, a lane, or a page. [ 1913 Webster ]

Or dive into the bottom of the deep. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Barrels with the bottom knocked out. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

No two chairs were alike; such high backs and low backs and leather bottoms and worsted bottoms. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, sea. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The fundament; the buttocks. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. An abyss. [ Obs. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. Low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river; low-lying ground; a dale; a valley. “The bottoms and the high grounds.” Stoddard. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Naut.) The part of a ship which is ordinarily under water; hence, the vessel itself; a ship. [ 1913 Webster ]

My ventures are not in one bottom trusted. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Not to sell the teas, but to return them to London in the
same bottoms in which they were shipped. Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

Full bottom, a hull of such shape as permits carrying a large amount of merchandise. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. Power of endurance; as, a horse of a good bottom. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ] He was at the bottom of many excellent counsels. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ] --
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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bottom glade, a low glade or open place; a valley; a dale. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

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Bottom grass, grass growing on bottom lands. --
Bottom land. See 1st Bottom, n., 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bottomed (&unr_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Bottoming. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To found or build upon; to fix upon as a support; -- followed by on or upon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Action is supposed to be bottomed upon principle. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those false and deceiving grounds upon which many bottom their eternal state ]. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To furnish with a bottom; as, to bottom a chair. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To reach or get to the bottom of. Smiles. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded; -- usually with on or upon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Find on what foundation any proposition bottoms. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. botme, perh. corrupt. for button. See Button. ] A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Silkworms finish their bottoms in . . . fifteen days. Mortimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having at the bottom, or as a bottom; resting upon a bottom; grounded; -- mostly, in composition; as, sharp-bottomed; well-bottomed. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A slow alcoholic fermentation during which the yeast cells collect at the bottom of the fermenting liquid. It takes place at a temperature of 4° - 10° C. (39° - 50°F.). It is used in making lager beer and wines of low alcohol content but fine bouquet. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. low-lying alluvial land near a river.
Syn. -- bottom. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Without a bottom; hence, fathomless; baseless; as, a bottomless abyss. “Bottomless speculations.” Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From 1st Bottom in sense 8: cf. D. bodemerij. Cf. Bummery. ] (Mar. Law) A contract in the nature of a mortgage, by which the owner of a ship, or the master as his agent, hypothecates and binds the ship (and sometimes the accruing freight) as security for the repayment of money advanced or lent for the use of the ship, if she terminates her voyage successfully. If the ship is lost by perils of the sea, the lender loses the money; but if the ship arrives safe, he is to receive the money lent, with the interest or premium stipulated, although it may, and usually does, exceed the legal rate of interest. See Hypothecation. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. (Computers) planning or building the smallest parts first; as, bottom-up programming. Opposite of top-down. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } a. [ F. boutonné, fr. boutonner to bud, button. ] (Her.) Having a bud or button, or a kind of trefoil, at the end; furnished with knobs or buttons. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cross bottony (Her.), a cross having each arm terminating in three rounded lobes, forming a sort of trefoil. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. (Zool.) See Bots. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. to provide with a copper bottom.
Syn. -- copperbottom. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. to bind with a cord, tie with a cord.
Syn. -- cord up. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Having a bottom made of copper, as a tin boiler or other vessel, or sheathed with copper, as a ship. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To bottle. [ R. ] Phillips. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. having a flat bottom. a flat-bottom boat [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Having an even lower surface or bottom; as, a flat-bottomed boat. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Full and large at the bottom, as wigs worn by certain civil officers in Great Britain. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) Of great capacity below the water line. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) The bladder campion (Silene inflata). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physics) Any configuration of magnetic fields used to contain a plasma during controlled thermonuclear reactions. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a party game in which a player spins a bottle and kisses the person that it points to when it stops spinning; -- usually played by children. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) A very large whalebone whale of the genus Sibbaldius, having a yellowish belly; especially, Sibbaldius sulfureus of the North Pacific, and Sibbaldius borealis of the North Atlantic; -- called also sulphur whale. [ 1913 Webster ]