The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids.
The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; as, to drink a bottle of wine.
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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.
Feeding \Feed"ing\, n.
the act of eating, or of supplying with food; the process of fattening.
That which is eaten; food.
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That which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals; pasture land.
Feeding bottle. See under Bottle.
Wiktionary
n. A bottle for feeding milk to baby or to the young of other animals.
WordNet
n. a bottle that holds a baby's milk; has a rubber teat [syn: nursing bottle]
Usage examples of "feeding bottle".
It was he who had suggested, rather firmly, that Chantal could be given boiled goat's milk when she woke in the night, and he had improvised a feeding bottle from his medical supplies so that he could be the one to get up.
Dickon had carried it over the moor in his arms and its feeding bottle was in his pocket with a squirrel, and when Mary had sat under a tree with its limp warmness huddled on her lap she had felt as if she were too full of strange joy to speak.