Bed rock () The solid rock underlying superficial formations. Also Fig. |
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. |
Rock (n.) See Roc. |
Rock (n.) A distaff used in spinning |
Rock (n.) A large concreted mass of stony material |
Rock (n.) Any natural deposit forming a part of the earth's crust, whether consolidated or not, including sand, earth, clay, etc., when in natural beds. |
Rock (n.) That which resembles a rock in firmness |
Rock (n.) Fig.: Anything which causes a disaster or wreck resembling the wreck of a vessel upon a rock. |
Rock (n.) The striped bass. See under Bass. |
Rock (v. t.) To cause to sway backward and forward, as a body resting on a support beneath |
Rock (v. t.) To move as in a cradle |
Rock (v. i.) To move or be moved backward and forward |
Rock (v. i.) To roll or saway backward and forward upon a support |
Rock shaft () A shaft that oscillates on its journals, instead of revolving, -- usually carrying levers by means of which it receives and communicates reciprocating motion, as in the valve gear of some steam engines |
Rock staff (v. i.) An oscillating bar in a machine, as the lever of the bellows of a forge. |
Sulphur-bottom (n.) A very large whalebone whale of the genus Sibbaldius, having a yellowish belly |
rock climbing | the sport or pastime of scaling rock masses on mountain sides (especially with the help of ropes and special equipment) |
rock careen sway tilt | pitching dangerously to one side |
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 |
cock of the rock Rupicola rupicola | tropical bird of northern South America the male having brilliant red or orange plumage and an erectile disklike crest |
cock of the rock Rupicola peruviana | bird of the Andes similar to Rupicola rupicola |
rock wren Salpinctes obsoletus | wren inhabiting badlands and mesa country of western United States and Mexico |
rock wren Xenicus gilviventris | short-tailed bird resembling a wren |
rock python rock snake Python sebae | very large python of tropical and southern Africa |
rock rattlesnake Crotalus lepidus | mountain rock dweller of Mexico and most southern parts of United States southwest |
Plymouth Rock | an American breed of domestic fowl |
Rock Cornish | small plump hybrid developed by crossbreeding Plymouth Rock and Cornish fowl |
Greek partridge rock partridge Alectoris graeca | of mountainous areas of southern Europe |
rock dove rock pigeon Columba livia | pale grey Eurasian pigeon having black-striped wings from which most domestic species are descended |
rock wallaby rock kangaroo | slender long-legged Australian wallabies living in caves and rocky areas |
rock crab Cancer irroratus | crab of eastern coast of North America |
spiny lobster langouste rock lobster crawfish crayfish sea crawfish | large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters |
acorn barnacle rock barnacle Balanus balanoides | barnacle that attaches to rocks especially in intertidal zones |
rock hopper crested penguin | small penguin of the Falkland Islands and New Zealand |
blue whale sulfur bottom Balaenoptera musculus | largest mammal ever known, bluish-grey migratory whalebone whale mostly of southern hemisphere |
pika mouse hare rock rabbit coney cony | small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America |
rock squirrel Citellus variegatus | large grey ground squirrel of rocky areas of the southwestern United States |
rock hyrax rock rabbit Procavia capensis | hyrax that lives in rocky areas |
groundfish bottom fish | fish that live on the sea bottom (particularly the commercially important gadoid fish like cod and haddock, or flatfish like flounder) |
rock bass rock sunfish Ambloplites rupestris | game and food fish of upper Mississippi and Great Lakes |
rock sea bass rock bass Centropristis philadelphica | a kind of sea bass |
rock hind Epinephelus adscensionis | found around rocky coasts or on reefs |
rock beauty Holocanthus tricolor | gold and black butterflyfish found from West Indies to Brazil |
rock gunnel butterfish Pholis gunnellus | slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters |
bore bit borer rock drill stone drill | a drill for penetrating rock |
bottom freighter merchantman merchant ship | a cargo ship, they did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms |
false bottom | a horizontal structure that partitions a ship or box (especially one built close to the actual bottom) |
rock bit roller bit | a drill bit that has hardened rotating rollers |
rock garden rockery | a garden featuring rocks, usually alpine plants |
round-bottom flask | a spherical flask with a narrow neck |
c buttocks nates arse butt backside bum buns can fundament hindquarters hind end keister posterior prat rear rear end rump stern seat tail tail end tooshie tush bottom behind derriere fanny ass a d | the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on, he deserves a good kick in the butt, are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing? |
rock opera | albums of rock music that aspired to the status of art, first appeared in the s |
bottom line | the decisive point |
rock concert | a performance of rock music |
rock 'n' roll rock'n'roll rock-andoll rock and roll rock rock music | a genre of popular music originating in the s, a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western, rock is a generic term for the range of styles that evolved out of rock'n'roll. |
progressive rock art rock | a style of rock music that emerged in the s, associated with attempts to combine rock with jazz and other forms, intended for listening and not dancing |
psychedelic rock acid rock | a musical style that emerged in the s, rock music inspired by or related to drug-induced experience |
punk rock punk | rock music with deliberately offensive lyrics expressing anger and social alienation, in part a reaction against progressive rock |
rock candy | sugar in large hard clear crystals on a string |
rock candy rock | hard brightolored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint) |
rock cake | a small cake with a hard surface said to resemble a rock |
Rock Cornish hen | flesh of a small fowl bred for roasting |
bottom round | cut from the round, suitable for pot roast |
spiny lobster langouste rock lobster crayfish | warm-water lobsters without claws, those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails, caught also in Florida and California |