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vity at the lower end of a sounding lead, to bring up the sand, shells, etc., of the sea bottom. Totten.

or family, with its several charges and other furniture, as mantling, crest, supporters, motto, etc. -- Submarine, a water-tight dress or covering for a diver. See under Submarine.

States is Leucania unipuncta. The name is often applied to other related species, as the cotton worm.

See Annotto.

The buttocks, or hind part of an animal; the posteriors; the fundament; the bottom.

latile and highly fragrant essential oil obtained from the petals of roses. [Also written otto and ottar.]

At bottom; fundamentally; essentially.

To bring low; to abase. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

A broad, flatbottomed ferryboat, usually worked by a rope.

A coarse stuff, usually of cotton, originally made in India. Also, an imitation of this fabric made for export.

alve (Mach.), a contrivance by which a ball, placed in a circular cup with a hole in its bottom, operates as a valve. -- Ball vein (Mining), a sort of iron ore, found in loose masses of a globular form, containing sparkling particles. -- Three balls, or Three golden balls, a pawnbroker's sign or shop.…

titors arriving to a sufficient number of balls, they fell to ballot some others. Sir H. Wotton.

Voting by ballot. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

A species of silk or cotton handkerchief, having a uniformly dyed ground, usually of red or blue, with white or yellow figures of a circular, lozenge, or other simple form.

A large piece of silk or other cloth, with a device or motto, extended on a crosspiece, and borne in a procession, or suspended in some conspicuous place.

A gauzelike fabric for ladies' dresses, veils, etc. of worsted, silk and worsted, or cotton and worsted.

roid barometer, under Aneroid. -- Marine barometer, a barometer with tube contracted at bottom to prevent rapid oscillations of the mercury, and suspended in gimbals from an arm or support on shipboard. -- Mountain barometer, a portable mercurial barometer with tripod support, and long scale, for measuring heights.…

The bottom of anything, considered as its support, or that on which something rests for support; the foundation; as, the base of a statue. "The base of mighty mountains." Prescott.

A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting.

A boat; esp. a flat-bottomed, clumsy boat used on the Canadian lakes and rivers. [Written also, but less properly, batteau.] Bateau bridge, a floating bridge supported by bateaux.