Bottle

Definition of Bottle

Bot´tle
n.1.A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids.
2.The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; as, to drink a bottle of wine.
3.Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in the bottle.
Bottle ale
bottled ale.
Bottle brush
a cylindrical brush for cleansing the interior of bottles.
- Shak.
Bottle fish
(Zool.) a kind of deep-sea eel (Saccopharynx ampullaceus), remarkable for its baglike gullet, which enables it to swallow fishes two or three times its won size.
Bottle flower
(Bot.) Same as Bluebottle.
Bottle glass
a coarse, green glass, used in the manufacture of bottles.
Bottle gourd
(Bot.) the common gourd or calabash (Lagenaria Vulgaris), whose shell is used for bottles, dippers, etc.
- Ure.
Bottle grass
(Bot.) a nutritious fodder grass (Setaria glauca and Setaria viridis); - called also foxtail, and green foxtail.
Bottle tit
(Zool.) the European long-tailed titmouse; - so called from the shape of its nest.
Bottle tree
(Bot.) an Australian tree (Sterculia rupestris), with a bottle-shaped, or greatly swollen, trunk.
Feeding bottle
a bottle with a rubber nipple (generally with an intervening tube), used in feeding infants.
v. t.1.To put into bottles; to inclose in, or as in, a bottle or bottles; to keep or restrain as in a bottle; as, to bottle wine or porter; to bottle up one's wrath.
[imp. & p. p. Bottled ( ) p. pr. & vb. n. Bottling ( ).]
n.1.A bundle, esp. of hay.

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