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
    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"

	

	115 Moby Thesaurus words for "bottle":
   Dutch courage, alcohol, alcoholic drink, backbone, bag, barrel,
   basket, booze, bottle up, box, box in, box up, burden, cabin,
   calabash, can, canteen, capsule, carafe, carboy, carton, case,
   cask, casket, caster, cloister, closet, coffin, confine, contain,
   container, control, courage, cramp, crate, crib, cruet, cruse,
   cut off, decanter, demijohn, do up, encase, encyst, entomb, ewer,
   fiasco, fifth, fill, flacon, flagon, flask, flasket, freight,
   gourd, grit, gumption, guts, hamper, heap, heap up, hem in,
   hipflask, hold back, hold in check, hot-water bottle, immure, jar,
   jeroboam, jug, keep in check, lade, liquor, load, lota, magnum,
   manfulness, manliness, mass, mettle, moxie, mussuk, nerve, olla,
   pack, pack away, package, parcel, phial, pile, pluck, pocket, pot,
   put up, repress, restrain, sack, sauce, ship, spirits, spunk,
   stack, starch, stifle, store, stoup, stow, straiten, suppress,
   tank, the bottle, tin, trap, vacuum bottle, vial

	

	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.