Bot"tle-nosed` (-nzd), a. Having the nose bottle-shaped, or large at the end. Dickens.
Bot"tler (bt"tlr/), n. One who bottles wine, beer, soda water, etc.
Bot"tle*screw` (&?;) n. A corkscrew. Swift.
Bot"tling (bt"tlng) n. The act or the process of putting anything into bottles (as beer, mineral water, etc.) and corking the bottles.
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Bot"tom (bt"tm), 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.
Or dive into the bottom of the deep.
Shak.
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.
Barrels with the bottom knocked out.
Macaulay.
No two chairs were alike; such high backs and low backs and leather bottoms and worsted bottoms.
W. Irving.
3. That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork.