bottle

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; as, to drink a bottle of wine. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in the bottle. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Bottle is much used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]