English English Dictionary

English English Dictionary

The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg

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Bottine (n.)

A small boot; a lady's boot.

Bottle (n.)

A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids.

Bottle (n.)

The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; as, to drink a bottle of wine.

Bottle (n.)

Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in the bottle.

Bottle (v. t.)

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.

Bottle (n.)

A bundle, esp. of hay.

Bottle green

A dark shade of green, like that of bottle glass.

Bottle-nose (n.)

A cetacean of the Dolphin family, of several species, as Delphinus Tursio and Lagenorhyncus leucopleurus, of Europe.

Bottle-nose (n.)

The puffin.

Bottle-nosed (a.)

Having the nose bottle-shaped, or large at the end.

Bottled (a.)

Having the shape of a bottle; protuberant.

Bottled (a.)

Put into bottles; inclosed in bottles; pent up in, or as in, a bottle.

Bottled (imp. & p. p.)

of Bottle

Bottlehead (n.)

A cetacean allied to the grampus; -- called also bottle-nosed whale.

Bottleholder (n.)

One who attends a pugilist in a prize fight; -- so called from the bottle of water of which he has charge.

Bottleholder (n.)

One who assists or supports another in a contest; an abettor; a backer.

Bottler (n.)

One who bottles wine, beer, soda water, etc.

Bottlescrew (n.)

A corkscrew.

Bottling (p. pr. & vb. n.)

of Bottle

Bottling (n.)

The act or the process of putting anything into bottles (as beer, mineral water, etc.) and corking the bottles.