Bottle n. 1.A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids.
2.The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; as, to drink a bottle of wine.
3.Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in the bottle. Note: Bottle is much used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound.
Bottle ale, bottled ale. (Obs.)
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.
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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