Bottle
Bot·tle
Bottle
n.
- A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids.
- The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; as, to drink a bottle of wine.
- Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in the bottle.
Phrases & Compounds
- Bottle ale
- bottled ale.
- Bottle brush
- a cylindrical brush for cleansing the interior of bottles.
- Bottle fish
- 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
- Same as Bluebottle.
- Bottle glass
- a coarse, green glass, used in the manufacture of bottles.
- Bottle gourd
- the common gourd or calabash (Lagenaria Vulgaris), whose shell is used for bottles, dippers, etc.
- Bottle grass
- a nutritious fodder grass (Setaria glauca and Setaria viridis); -- called also foxtail, and green foxtail.
- Bottle tit
- the European long-tailed titmouse; -- so called from the shape of its nest.
- Bottle tree
- 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.
Bottle
v. 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 wrath.
Bottle
n.
- A bundle, esp. of hay. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]