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Bottle

noun

A glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a narrow neck that can be plugged or capped.

The quantity contained in a bottle. Synonym: bottleful.

A vessel fitted with a flexible teat and filled with milk or formula; used as a substitute for breast feeding infants and very young children. Synonyms: feeding bottle, nursing bottle.

verb

(past & past part. bottled; pres. part. bottling)

Store (liquids or gases) in bottles.

Put into bottles.

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— A Knight Of The Nineteenth Century • E. P. Roe

... towering pines. We reached the hotel at 7 P.M.—tired—tired. Not a muscle, not one inch of flesh from my heels to my hands that was not sore and lame, but I took a good rub-off with the powerful camphor from the bottle mother so carefully filled for me, and went to bed with orders for ...

— The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) • Ida Husted Harper

... back in his chair. A blue-bottle chose that moment to come buzzing round him with a sort of fury; the sound was homely, better than nothing.... Where had the boy gone to read his letter? The wretched letter—the wretched story! A cruel business—cruel to her—to ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... Investigators sat next the walls. The name of a spirit, for instance, would be written and laid on a table, when in a short time he pronounced it. To tell the time by a watch, he required it to be placed on the table, or in his hand. With the tablecloth over his head, a bottle of phosphorated oil enabled him to see, when not the least glimmer of light was visible to others in ...

— The Humbugs of the World • P. T. Barnum

... hail from a farm in the Kentucky hills back of Milton. They practiced the dialect of the region and found that they could talk it well enough to pass the test of a few sentences They packed the fishing bag; she wrapped the two eggs in paper and put them in the empty milk bottle. They descended by the path—a slow journey in the darkness of that side of the rock, as there were many dangers, including the danger of making a noise that might be heard by some restless person at the house. After half an hour they were safely at the base of ...

— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips

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