Definition of Botle

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.

&fist; 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(Zoöl.), 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(Zoöl.), 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.

A container, typically made of glass and having a tapered neck, used for holding liquids.
Beer is often sold in bottles.
The contents of such a container.
I only drank a bottle of beer.
A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants.
The baby wants a bottle.
(UK) Nerve.
You don't have the bottle to do that!
To seal into a bottle for later consumption.
This plant bottles vast quantities of spring water every day.
(UK) To feed an infant baby formula.
Due to complications she can't breast feed her baby and so she bottles him.
(UK) To stop doing something.

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