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Bottle \Bot"tle\, n. [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.
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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.
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Note: Bottle is much used adjectively, or as the first part
of a compound.
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{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.
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Bottle \Bot"tle\, 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.
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Bottle \Bot"tle\, n. [OE. botel, OF. botel, dim. of F. botte;
cf. OHG. bozo bunch. See {Boss} stud.]
A bundle, esp. of hay. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Chaucer.
--Shak.
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