Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Bottom \Bot"tom\, a.
Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under;
as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom
prices.
{Bottom glade}, a low glade or open place; a valley; a dale.
--Milton.
{Bottom grass}, grass growing on bottom lands.
{Bottom land}. See 1st {Bottom}, n., 7.
Glade \Glade\, n. [Prob. of Scand. origin, and akin to glad, a.;
cf. also W. golead, goleuad, a lighting, illumination, fr.
goleu light, clear, bright, goleu fwlch glade, lit., a light
or clear defile.]
1. An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared
space in a forest.
There interspersed in lawns and opening glades.
--Pope.
2. An everglade. [Local, U. S.]
3. An opening in the ice of rivers or lakes, or a place left
unfrozen; also, smooth ice. [Local, U. S.]
{Bottom glade}. See under {Bottom}.
{Glade net}, in England, a net used for catching woodcock and
other birds in forest glades.