 7 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
bottle
noun
1: glass or plastic vessel; cylindrical with a narrow neck; no
handle
2: the quantity contained in a bottle [syn: {bottleful}]
verb
1: store (liquids or gases) in bottles
2: put into bottles; "bottle the mineral water"
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bottle \Bot"tle\, noun [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.
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.] --Shak.
{Bottle brush}, a cylindrical brush for cleansing the
interior of bottles.
{Bottle fish} (Zo["o]l.), 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} (Zo["o]l.), 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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bottle \Bot"tle\, verb (used with an object) [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bottle \Bot"tle\, noun [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.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
BOTTLE-:NOSED:, adjective Having a nose created in the image of its maker.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
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.
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