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What's The Definition Of 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.
\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.
\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.