Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for BOT'TOM
BOT'TOM, v.t.
- To found or build upon; to fix upon as a support; followed by on; as, sound reasoning is bottomed on just premises.
- To furnish with a seat or bottom; as, to bottom a chair.
- To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread. – Shak.
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