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.
 Gourd n.
 1. Bot. A fleshy, three-celled, many-seeded fruit, as the melon, pumpkin, cucumber, etc., of the order Cucurbitaceæ; and especially the bottle gourd (Lagenaria vulgaris) which occurs in a great variety of forms, and, when the interior part is removed, serves for bottles, dippers, cups, and other dishes.
 2. A dipper or other vessel made from the shell of a gourd; hence, a drinking vessel; a bottle.
 Bitter gourd, colocynth.
 Hercules'-club, Hercules'-club, Hercules-club prop. n.
 1. Bot. A densely spiny ornamental tree (Zanthoxylum clava-herculis) of the rue family, growing in southeast U. S. and West Indies. [wns=1]
 Note: It belongs to the same genus as one of the trees (Zanthoxylum Americanum) called prickly ash.
 Syn: -- Hercules'-clubs, Hercules-club, Zanthoxylum clava-herculis.
 2. A small, prickly, deciduous clump-forming tree or shrub (Aralia spinosa) of eastern U.S.; also called Angelica tree and prickly ash. [wns=2]
 Syn: -- American angelica tree, devil's walking stick, Aralia spinosa.
 3. A variety of the common gourd (Lagenaria vulgaris). Its fruit sometimes exceeds five feet in length.
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