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• BOTTLE
  bouteille, fr. LL. buticula, dim. of butis, buttis, butta, flask. Cf. 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
• BOTTLED
  1. Put into bottles; inclosed in bottles; pent up in, or as in, a bottle. 2. Having the shape of a bottle; protuberant. Shak.
• BOTTLE GREEN
  A dark shade of green, like that of bottle glass. -- Bot"tle-green`, a.
• BOTTLESCREW
  A corkscrew. Swift.
• BOTTLEHEAD
  A cetacean allied to the grampus; -- called also bottle-nosed whale. Note: There are several species so named, as the pilot whales, of the genus Globicephalus, and one or more species of Hyperoödon (H. bidens, etc.), found on the European coast.
• BOTTLE-NECK FRAME
  An inswept frame.
• BOTTLER
  One who bottles wine, beer, soda water, etc.
• BOTTLE-NOSED
  Having the nose bottleshaped, or large at the end. Dickens.
• BOTTLEHOLDER
  1. One who attends a pugilist in a prize fight; -- so called from the bottle of water of which he has charge. 2. One who assists or supports another in a contest; an abettor; a backer. Lord Palmerston considered himself the bottleholder
• BOTTLE-NOSE
  1. A cetacean of the Dolphin family, of several species, as Delphinus Tursio and Lagenorhyncus leucopleurus, of Europe. 2. The puffin.
• KNAPBOTTLE
  The bladder campion .
• EMBOTTLE
  To bottle. Phillips.
• WOULFE BOTTLE
  A kind of wash bottle with two or three necks; -- so called after the inventor, Peter Woulfe, an English chemist.
• BLUEBOTTLE
  A plant which grows in grain fields. It receives its name from its blue bottle-shaped flowers.