Bot·tle n.
 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 Zool., 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 Zool., 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.