Search the Dictionary

The bottom of a drain. [Prov. Eng.]

d pleasure carriage, (commonly two-seated) somewhat like a phaeton, but having a straight bottom.

A thin layer of refuse at the bottom of a seam. Raymond.

To draw or drag something over; as, to sweep the bottom of a river with a net.

are attached overhead, as to the bough of a tree, a seat being placed in the loop at the bottom; also, any contrivance by which a similar motion is produced for amusement or exercise.

To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the boltrope.

The fillet, or band, at the bottom of a Doric frieze, separating it from the architrave.

The bottom or lower portion of a member or part, as a slate or tile.

An ornament placed at the bottom of a short page to fill up the space, or at the end of a book. Savage.

A kind of molding, concave at the bottom and convex at the top; -- usually called an ogee.

es, -- used to capture starfishes, sea urchins, and other similar creatures living at the bottom of the sea. Blue tangle. (Bot.)See Dangleberry. -- Tangle picker (Zoöl.), the turnstone. [Prov. Eng.]

of a man, and within the figure a siphon, the longer arm of which passes down through the bottom of the cup, and allows the escape of any liquid that may be poured in, when it reaches as high as the bend of the siphon, which is just below the level of the mouth of the figure in the cup.

A piece of leather fastened upon the bottom of a boot or shoe in repairing or renewing the sole or heel.

A probe for searching a wound. The tent that searches To the bottom of the worst. Shak.

, wormlike bivalve mollusks which bore into submerged wood, such as the piles of wharves, bottoms of ships, etc.; -- called also shipworm. See Shipworm. See Illust. in App.

ng to the sea; -- sometimes applied to rocks formed from sediments deposited upon the sea bottom.

Going through, or to the end or bottom; very thorough; complete.

.] Small drops of water that enter through a little crevice into the thurrok and into the bottom of a ship. Chaucer.

A beam acting as a tie, as at the bottom of a pair of principal rafters, to prevent them from thrusting out the wall. See Illust. of Timbers, under Roof. Gwilt.

A capacious, flat-bottomed drinking cup, generally with four handles, formerly used for passing around the table at convivial entertainment.