bottle
    n 1: a glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other
         liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a
         narrow neck that can be plugged or capped
    2: the quantity contained in a bottle [syn: bottle,
       bottleful]
    3: a vessel fitted with a flexible teat and filled with milk or
       formula; used as a substitute for breast feeding infants and
       very young children [syn: bottle, feeding bottle,
       nursing bottle]
    v 1: store (liquids or gases) in bottles
    2: put into bottles; "bottle the mineral water"

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. Bottledp. 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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Bottle
   a vessel made of skins for holding wine (Josh. 9:4. 13; 1 Sam.
   16:20; Matt. 9:17; Mark 2:22; Luke 5:37, 38), or milk (Judg.
   4:19), or water (Gen. 21:14, 15, 19), or strong drink (Hab.
   2:15).
   
     Earthenware vessels were also similarly used (Jer. 19:1-10; 1
   Kings 14:3; Isa. 30:14). In Job 32:19 (comp. Matt. 9:17; Luke
   5:37, 38; Mark 2:22) the reference is to a wine-skin ready to
   burst through the fermentation of the wine. "Bottles of wine" in
   the Authorized Version of Hos. 7:5 is properly rendered in the
   Revised Version by "the heat of wine," i.e., the fever of wine,
   its intoxicating strength.
   
     The clouds are figuratively called the "bottles of heaven"
   (Job 38:37). A bottle blackened or shrivelled by smoke is
   referred to in Ps. 119:83 as an image to which the psalmist
   likens himself.