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Sediment at the bottom of liquors or liquids; dregs; lees; feces; as, coffee grounds.

entary instruction; the act or process of applying a ground, as of color, to wall paper, cotton cloth, etc.; a basis.

A fish that keeps at the bottom of the water, as the loach.

t made in India from sea shells, pulverized and mixed with oil, and spread over a ship's bottom, to prevent the boring of worms.

A gutter or channel for water, hewn out of the bottom of a working drift. Page.

aced, like a diminutive battlement. -- Gutter plane, a carpenter's plane with a rounded bottom for planing out gutters. -- Gutter snipe, a neglected boy running at large; a street Arab. [Slang] -- Gutter stick (Printing), one of the pieces of furniture which separate pages in a form.

A large piece of woolen or cotton cloth worn by Arabs as an outer garment. [Written also hyke.] Heyse.

To halve. [Obs.] See Halve. Sir H. Wotton.

A hand's breadth; four inches. [Obs.] Knap the tongs together about a handful from the bottom. Bacon.

A kind of grass (Eriophorum vaginatum). See Cotton grass, under Cotton. Hare's-tail grass (Bot.), a species of grass (Lagurus ovatus) whose head resembles a hare's tail.

To heave the log. (Naut.) See Log. -- To heave up anchor (Naut.), to raise it from the bottom of the sea or elsewhere.

[Prov. Eng.] Half heck, the lower half of a door. -- Heck board, the loose board at the bottom or back of a cart. -- Heck box or frame, that which carries the heck in warping.

an air pump; -- used to illustrate the pressure of the air. So called because invented by Otto von Guericke at Magdeburg.

A woman's skirt so scant at the bottom as to restrain freedom of movement after the fashion of a hobble. -- Hob"ble-skirt`ed, a.

A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water. Totten.

One who exercises hospitality, or has plentiful and hospitable household. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

, under water. -- Hydraulic main (Gas Works), a horizontal pipe containing water at the bottom into which the ends of the pipes from the retorts dip, for passing the gas through water in order to remove ammonia. -- Hydraulic mining, a system of mining in which the force of a jet of water is used to wash down a bank o…

That branch of surveying which embraces the determination of the contour of the bottom of a harbor or other sheet of water, the depth of soundings, the position of channels and shoals, with the construction of charts exhibiting these particulars.

driving upward the large plunder d, which performs the reduced work, such as compressing cotton bales, etc.

That which is deposited at the bottom of a fluid; sediment.