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Vexatious; causing bother; causing trouble or perplexity; troublesome.

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. Or dive into the bottom of the deep. Shak.

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

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

Without a bottom; hence, fathomless; baseless; as, a bottomless abyss. "Bottomless speculations." Burke.

ch 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 i…

A small pair of compasses, one leg of which carries a pencil, or a pen, for drawing circles. Its legs are often connected by a bow- shaped spring, instead of by a joint.

A dome parallel to the shorter lateral axis. See Dome.

A modern reforming theistic sect among the Hindos. [Written also Brahma-samaj.]

The state of being made up of branchiate segments. R. Wiedersheim.

The lancelet. See Amphioxus.

A man newly married, or just about to be married.

Bright; clear; luminous; brilliant. [R.] Marlowe.

A light form of prepared cocoa (or cacao), or the drink made from it.

An oily, colorless fluid, CBr

A colorless or white crystalline compound, (CH2)6N4C2H5Br, used as a sedative in epilepsy.

A substance analogous to chloranil but containing bromine in place of chlorine.

A salt of bromic acid.

One versed in the science of foods.

The science of aliments. Dunglison.