Alum root () A North American herb (Heuchera Americana) of the Saxifrage family, whose root has astringent properties. |
Bottom (n.) The lowest part of anything |
Bottom (n.) 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 |
Bottom (n.) That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal or a figurative sense |
Bottom (n.) The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, sea. |
Bottom (n.) The fundament |
Bottom (n.) An abyss. |
Bottom (n.) Low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river |
Bottom (n.) The part of a ship which is ordinarily under water |
Bottom (n.) Power of endurance |
Bottom (n.) Dregs or grounds |
Bottom (a.) Of or pertaining to the bottom |
Bottom (v. t.) To found or build upon |
Bottom (v. t.) To furnish with a bottom |
Bottom (v. t.) To reach or get to the bottom of. |
Bottom (v. i.) To rest, as upon an ultimate support |
Bottom (v. i.) 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. |
Bottom (n.) A ball or skein of thread |
Bottom (v. t.) To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread. |
Chay root () The root of the Oldenlandia umbellata, native in India, which yieds a durable red dyestuff. |
Choy root () See Chay root. |
Clay (n.) A soft earth, which is plastic, or may be molded with the hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium. It is the result of the wearing down and decomposition, in part, of rocks containing aluminous minerals, as granite. Lime, magnesia, oxide of iron, and other ingredients, are often present as impurities. |
Clay (n.) Earth in general, as representing the elementary particles of the human body |
Clay (v. t.) To cover or manure with clay. |
Clay (v. t.) To clarify by filtering through clay, as sugar. |
Clay-brained (a.) Stupid. |
Curb roof () A roof having a double slope, or composed, on each side, of two parts which have unequal inclination |
Floor (n.) The bottom or lower part of any room |
Floor (n.) The structure formed of beams, girders, etc., with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into stories. Floor in sense 1 is, then, the upper surface of floor in sense 2. |
Floor (n.) The surface, or the platform, of a structure on which we walk or travel |
Floor (n.) A story of a building. See Story. |
Floor (n.) The part of the house assigned to the members. |
Floor (n.) The right to speak. |
Floor (n.) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal. |
Floor (n.) The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit. |
Floor (n.) A horizontal, flat ore body. |
Floor (v. t.) To cover with a floor |
Floor (v. t.) To strike down or lay level with the floor |
Floor (v. t.) To finish or make an end of |
Mansard roof () A hipped curb roof |
Monk's seam () An extra middle seam made at the junction of two breadths of canvas, ordinarily joined by only two rows of stitches. |
Pipe clay () A plastic, unctuous clay of a grayish white color, -- used in making tobacco pipes and various kinds of earthenware, in scouring cloth, and in cleansing soldiers' equipments. |
Purbeck beds () The strata of the Purbeck stone, or Purbeck limestone, belonging to the Oolitic group. See the Chart of Geology. |
Roof (n.) The cover of any building, including the roofing (see Roofing) and all the materials and construction necessary to carry and maintain the same upon the walls or other uprights. In the case of a building with vaulted ceilings protected by an outer roof, some writers call the vault the roof, and the outer protection the roof mask. It is better, however, to consider the vault as the ceiling only, in cases where it has farther covering. |
Roof (n.) That which resembles, or corresponds to, the covering or the ceiling of a house |
Roof (n.) The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein. |
Roof (v. t.) To cover with a roof. |
Roof (v. t.) To inclose in a house |
Root (v. i.) To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine. |
Root (v. i.) Hence, to seek for favor or advancement by low arts or groveling servility |
cabaret floorshow floor show | a series of acts at a night club |
bottom-feeder bottom-dweller | a fish that lives and feeds on the bottom of a body of water |
bottom-feeder | a scavenger that feeds low on the food chain |
bottom lurkers | a fish that lurks on the bottom of a body of water |
blue whale sulfur bottom Balaenoptera musculus | largest mammal ever known, bluish-grey migratory whalebone whale mostly of southern hemisphere |
black rat roof rat Rattus rattus | common household pest originally from Asia that has spread worldwide |
groundfish bottom fish | fish that live on the sea bottom (particularly the commercially important gadoid fish like cod and haddock, or flatfish like flounder) |
bellbottom trousers bell-bottoms bellbottom pants | trousers with legs that flare, worn by sailors, absurdly wide hems were fashionable in the s |
bottom freighter merchantman merchant ship | a cargo ship, they did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms |
caldron cauldron | a very large pot that is used for boiling |
clay pigeon | target used in skeet or trapshooting |
clay pipe | a pipe made of clay |
curb roof | a roof with two or more slopes on each side of the ridge |
dance floor | a bare floor polished for dancing |
false bottom | a horizontal structure that partitions a ship or box (especially one built close to the actual bottom) |
fell felled seam | seam made by turning under or folding together and stitching the seamed materials to avoid rough edges |
floor flooring | the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure), they needed rugs to cover the bare floors, we spread our sleeping bags on the dry floor of the tent |
floor level storey story | a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale, what level is the office on? |
floor trading floor | a large room in a exchange where the trading is done, he is a floor trader |
floor | the legislative hall where members debate and vote and conduct other business, there was a motion from the floor |
floorboard floor board | a board in the floor |
floor cover floor covering | a covering for a floor |
floor joist | joist that supports a floor |
floor lamp | a lamp that stands on the floor |
floor plan | scale drawing of a horizontal section through a building at a given level, contrasts with elevation |
fly gallery fly floor | a narrow raised platform at the side of a stage in a theater, stagehands can work the ropes controlling equipment in the flies |
French roof | a mansard roof with sides that are nearly perpendicular |
gable roof saddle roof saddleback saddleback roof | a double sloping roof with a ridge and gables at each end |
gambrel gambrel roof | a gable roof with two slopes on each side and the lower slope being steeper |
ground floor first floor ground level | the floor of a building that is at or nearest to the level of the ground around the building |
hip roof hipped roof | a roof having sloping ends as well as sloping sides |
hurricane deck hurricane roof promenade deck awning deck | a deck at the top of a passenger ship |
luggage rack roof rack | carrier for holding luggage above the seats of a train or on top of a car |
mansard mansard roof | a hip roof having two slopes on each side |
mezzanine mezzanine floor entresol | intermediate floor just above the ground floor |
mold mould molding moulding modeling clay sculpture | sculpture produced by molding |
parquet parquet floor | a floor made of parquetry |
roof | a protective covering that covers or forms the top of a building |
roof | protective covering on top of a motor vehicle |
roof garden | a garden on a flat roof of a building |
roof peak | the highest point of a roof |
root cellar cellar | an excavation where root vegetables are stored |
round-bottom flask | a spherical flask with a narrow neck |
seam | joint consisting of a line formed by joining two pieces |
shop floor | workplace consisting of the part of a factory housing the machines, the productive work is done on the shop floor |
slate roof | a roof covered with slate |
suture surgical seam | a seam used in surgery |
thatch thatched roof | a house roof made with a plant material (as straw) |
threshing floor | a floor or ground area for threshing or treading out grain |
tile roof | a roof made of fired clay tiles |