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English Dictionary: bottoming by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bottom \Bot"tom\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bottomed} ([?]); p. pr. &
      vb. n. {Bottoming}.]
      1. To found or build upon; to fix upon as a support; --
            followed by on or upon.
  
                     Action is supposed to be bottomed upon principle.
                                                                              --Atterbury.
  
                     Those false and deceiving grounds upon which many
                     bottom their eternal state].               --South.
  
      2. To furnish with a bottom; as, to bottom a chair.
  
      3. To reach or get to the bottom of. --Smiles.
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