/mhw>, n. [ Perh. the native name. ] A red or yellowish-red dyeing material, prepared from the pulp surrounding the seeds of a tree (Bixa orellana) belonging to the tropical regions of America. It is used for coloring cheese, butter, etc. [ Written also Anatto, Anatta, Annatto, Annotta, etc. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Annotto. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having legs that flare at the bottom; -- of trousers. bell-bottomed trousers [ WordNet 1.5 ]

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 ]

adj. def>drunk{ 1 }. [ colloq. ] [ PJC ]

n. 1. (Naut.) The act or process of daubing a vessel's bottom near the surface of the water with a mixture of tallow, sulphur, and resin, as a temporary protection against worms, after the slime, shells, etc., have been scraped off. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) Sheathing a vessel with planking over felt. [ 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 ]

--
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 ]

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 ]

a. [ NL. cottus sculpin + -oid. ] (Zool.) Like a fish of the genus Cottus. -- n. A fish belonging to, or resembling, the genus Cottus. See Sculpin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A product from cotton-seed, used as lard. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. coton, Sp. algodon the cotton plant and its wool, coton printed cotton, cloth, fr. Ar. qutun, alqutun, cotton wool. Cf. Acton, Hacqueton. ] 1. A soft, downy substance, resembling fine wool, consisting of the unicellular twisted hairs which grow on the seeds of the cotton plant. Long-staple cotton has a fiber sometimes almost two inches long; short-staple, from two thirds of an inch to an inch and a half. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The cotton plant. See Cotten plant, below. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Cloth made of cotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Cotton is used as an adjective before many nouns in a sense which commonly needs no explanation; as, cotton bagging; cotton cloth; cotton goods; cotton industry; cotton mill; cotton spinning; cotton tick. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cotton cambric. See Cambric, n., 2. --
Cotton flannel, the manufactures' name for a heavy cotton fabric, twilled, and with a long plush nap. In England it is called swan's-down cotton, or Canton flannel. --
Cotton gin, a machine to separate the seeds from cotton, invented by Eli Whitney. --
Cotton grass (Bot.), a genus of plants (Eriphorum) of the Sedge family, having delicate capillary bristles surrounding the fruit (seedlike achenia), which elongate at maturity and resemble tufts of cotton. --
Cotton mouse (Zool.), a field mouse (Hesperomys gossypinus), injurious to cotton crops. --
Cotton plant (Bot.), a plant of the genus Gossypium, of several species, all growing in warm climates, and bearing the cotton of commerce. The common species, originally Asiatic, is Gossypium herbaceum. --
Cotton press, a building and machinery in which cotton bales are compressed into smaller bulk for shipment; a press for baling cotton. --
Cotton rose (Bot.), a genus of composite herbs (Filago), covered with a white substance resembling cotton. --
Cotton scale (Zool.), a species of bark louse (Pulvinaria innumerabilis), which does great damage to the cotton plant. --
Cotton shrub. Same as Cotton plant. --
Cotton stainer (Zool.), a species of hemipterous insect (Dysdercus suturellus), which seriously damages growing cotton by staining it; -- called also redbug. --
Cotton thistle (Bot.), the Scotch thistle. See under Thistle. --
Cotton velvet, velvet in which the warp and woof are both of cotton, and the pile is of silk; also, velvet made wholly of cotton. --
Cotton waste, the refuse of cotton mills. --
Cotton wool, cotton in its raw or woolly state. --
Cotton worm (Zool.), a lepidopterous insect (Aletia argillacea), which in the larval state does great damage to the cotton plant by eating the leaves. It also feeds on corn, etc., and hence is often called corn worm, and Southern army worm. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To rise with a regular nap, as cloth does. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

It cottons well; it can not choose but bear
A pretty nap. Family of Love. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To go on prosperously; to succeed. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

New, Hephestion, does not this matter cotton as I would? Lyly. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To unite; to agree; to make friends; -- usually followed by with. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A quarrel will end in one of you being turned off, in which case it will not be easy to cotton with another. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

Didst see, Frank, how the old goldsmith cottoned in with his beggarly companion? Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To take a liking to; to stick to one as cotton; -- used with to. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. cottonade. ] A somewhat stout and thick fabric of cotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating to, or composed of, cotton; cottony. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Cottonary and woolly pillows. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

. Cotton prepared in sheets or rolls for quilting, upholstering, and similar purposes. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. venomous semiaquatic snake (Agkistrodon piscivorus) of swamps in southern U.S.; -- called also water moccasin, cottonmouth moccasin, and cottonmouth water moccasin. It grows to a length of about 4 feet. The name refers to the whiteness of the lips and inside of the mouth.
Syn. -- water moccasin, cottonmouth moccasin, Agkistrodon piscivorus. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

a. Resembling cotton. [ R. ] Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ or , usually collectively, } n. The seed of the cotton plant. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. A meal made from hulled cotton seeds after the oil has been expressed. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. A fixed, semidrying oil extracted from cottonseed. It is pale yellow when pure (sp. gr., .92-.93). and is extensively used in soap making, in cookery, and as an adulterant of other oils. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. Alabama; -- a nickname. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Zool.) The American wood rabbit (Lepus sylvaticus); -- also called Molly cottontail. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) See Cudweed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a type of grunt (Haemulon melanurum) of warm Atlantic waters.
Syn. -- Haemulon melanurum. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Bot.) An American tree of the genus Populus or poplar, having the seeds covered with abundant cottonlike hairs; esp., the Populus monilifera and Populus angustifolia of the Western United States. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Covered with hairs or pubescence, like cotton; downy; nappy; woolly. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to cotton; resembling cotton in appearance or character; soft, like cotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ It. See Fagot. ] (Mus.) The bassoon; -- so called from being divided into parts for ease of carriage, making, as it were, a small fagot. [ 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 ]

a. Of or pertaining to glottology. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A linguist; a philologist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, the tongue + -logy. ] The science of tongues or languages; comparative philology; glossology. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Grottoes [ Formerly grotta, fr. It. grotta, LL. grupta, fr. L. crypta a concealed subterranean passage, vault, cavern, Gr. kry`pth, fr. krypto`s concealed, fr. kry`ptein to conceal. Cf. Grot, Crypt. ] A natural covered opening in the earth; a cave; also, an artificial recess, cave, or cavernlike apartment. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Artificial and ornamental rockwork in imitation of a grotto. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

See under Gun. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A genus of aquatic herbs.
Syn. -- genus Hottonia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]