Hypertext Webster Gateway: "bottle"

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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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 {S. 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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Bottle \Bot"tle\, v. t. [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 WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

bottle
n 1: glass or plastic vessel; cylindrical with a narrow neck; no
handle
2: the quantity contained in a bottle [syn: {bottleful}]
v 1: store in bottles, as of liquids or gas
2: put into bottles; of liquids such a milk or water


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