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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.