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Webster 1913 Edition
Bottle
Bot′tle
,Noun.
[OE.
bote
, botelle
, OF. botel
, bouteille
, F. bouteille
, fr. LL. buticula
, dim. of butis
, buttis
, butta
, flask. Cf. Butt
a cask.] 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 wine3.
Fig.: Intoxicating liquor;
as, to drown one’s reason in the
. bottle
☞ Bottle is much used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound.
Bottle ale
, bottled ale.
[Obs.]
Shak.
– Bottle brush
, a cylindrical brush for cleansing the interior of bottles.
– 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.
Ure.
– Bottle gourd
(Bot.)
, the common gourd or calabash (
– Lagenaria Vulgaris
), whose shell is used for bottles, dippers, etc. 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
, Nursing bottle
a bottle with a rubber nipple (generally with an intervening tube), used in feeding infants.
Bot′tle
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Bottled
p. pr. & vb. n.
Bottling
.] 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 wrathBot′tle
,Noun.
A bundle, esp. of hay.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Chaucer.
Shak.
Webster 1828 Edition
Bottle
BOT'TLE
,Noun.
1.
A hollow vessel of glass, wood, leather or other material, with a narrow mouth, for holding and carrying liquors. The oriental nations use skins or leather for the conveyance of liquors; and of this kind are the bottles mentioned in scripture. 'Put new wine into bottles.' In Europe and America, glass is used for liquors of all kinds; and farmers use small cags or hollow vessels of wood. The small kinds of glass bottles are called vials or phials.2.
The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; but from the size of bottles used for wine, porter and cyder, a bottle is nearly a quart; as a bottle of wine or a porter.3.
A quantity of hay in a bundle; a bundle of hay.BOT'TLE
,Verb.
T.