01 n. A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids.
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1.
A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids.
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2.
The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; as, to drink a bottle of wine.
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3.
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.