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Bottle glass

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.

  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.

Usage examples of "bottle glass".

He looked up into her laughing eyes clear and brown as bottle glass.

The walls on either side of the gate were at least ten feet high, topped with broken bottle glass embedded in concrete.

Along with that came the crunch of beer-bottle glass being ground against stones and a metallic clinking like links of a chain striking a post.