ppl. a. [f. BOTTOM sb. and v. + -ED.]
1. Having a bottom; furnished with a bottom of some special material or form; usually in composition, as foul-, full-, gravel-, sharp-bottomed.
1559. Richmond. Wills (1853), 135. One trussin bedde bothomed with girth webbe.
1590. Greene, Fr. Bacon (1630), 29. In Frigats bottom’d with rich Sethin planks.
1702. W. J., trans. Bruyn’s Voy. Levant, xxxvi. 139. We came into a chamber 18 foot long … the Roof being sharp bottom’d.
1710. Lond. Gaz., No. 4691/4. Wearing a light brown Wig, sometimes full bottomed.
1742. R. Blair, Grave, 326. Nor margin of the gravel-bottom’d brook.
1841. Orderson, Creol., xvi. 192. Leather-bottomed chairs.
c. 1850. Rudim. Navig. (Weale), 100. Vessels … full-bottomed for large cargoes.
1859. F. Griffiths, Artil. Man. (1862), 114. Unless the shot are bottomed.
b. Covered at the bottom, having as a bottom or foundation.
1799. J. Robertson, Agric. Perth, 485. Most of our extensive mosses are bottomed by clay.
1872. Daily News, 28 Feb., 7/5. Dowgate Dock Sewer … discharging itself finally into a narrow creek flanked with warehouses, and bottomed with its fœtid deposit.
2. Founded, based, grounded; mostly fig.
c. 1645. Howell, Lett. (1650), I. 395. It was far from being any opinion … bottomed upon weak grounds.
1823. Lamb, Elia, Ser. II. x. (1865), 298. Our literary talk … was bottomed well; had good grounds to go upon.
1874. Morley, Compromise, 134. A strong and well-bottomed character.
Hence † Bottomedness, the quality of resting upon a sure foundation, stability.
1642. Rogers, Naaman, 19. The freedome, bottomednesse, and unchangeablenesse of the promise.
