Oriental Goat-skin Bottles, or Wine-skins. 
bottine 
with straps, springs, buckles, etc., to correct 
or prevent distortion of the lower limbs and 
feet of children. 
hotting (bot'ing), H. [Perhaps for tatting, < 
bat 1 , ME. occasionally botte, a club, stick.] 
The operation of restopping the tap-hole of a 
furnace with a plug of clay on the end of a 
wooden rod, after a portion of the charge has 
been removed. 
bottle 1 !, . [ME., also botle, buttle, < AS. botl 
(= OS. bodl = OFries. bodel = Icel. bol (also 
deriv. baili), a dwelling, abode, farm, also lair, 
den, = Dan. bol, a farm, 667, bolle, in local 
names) ; cf. bold, a dwelling (> oyldan, E. build, 
q. v.), and 6wr(>E. bower 1 ), a dwelling; < buan 
(/ "bit), dwell: see bower 1 , bond?, etc.] A 
dwelling; a habitation: a word extant (as -bot- 
tle, -battle) only in some local English names, 
as Hurbottle, Newbottle, Morbattle. 
bottle 8 (bot'l), n. [Early mod. E. also bottel, 
botle; < ME. hotel, bottelle = D. bottel = LG. but- 
tel, butldel, < OF. botel, m., also boutelle, boutille, 
F. bouteille = Pr. Pg. botellia = Sp. botella = It. 
bottiglia, < ML. buticula, f., dim. of butis, but- 
tis, butta (> 
OF. boitte, F. 
botte), a butt : 
see butfi.~\ 
1. A hollow 
mouthed ves- 
sel of glass, 
wood, leather, 
or other ma- 
terial, for 
holding and 
carrying li- 
quids. Oriental 
nations use skias 
or leather for this purpose, and of the nature of these 
wine-skins are the bottles mentioned in Scripture : " Put 
new wine into new bottles." In Europe and North America 
glass is generally used for liquids of all kinds, but wine is 
still largely stored in skins in Spain and Greece. Small 
bottles are often called rials. 
2. The contents of a bottle ; as much as a bot- 
tle contains: as, a bottle of wine or of porter. 
Capillary bottle. See capillary. The bottle, figura- 
tively, strong drink in general ; the practice of drinking. 
In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for 
courage, and bashfulness for confidence. 
Johnson, Addison. 
bottle 2 (bot'l), v. t. ; pret. and pp. bottled, ppr. 
bottling. [< bottk%, n.~\ 1. To put into bot- 
tles for the purpose of preserving or of stor- 
ing away: as, to bottle wine or porter. Hence 
2. To store up as in a bottle ; preserve as if 
by bottling; shut in or hold back (colloq. "cork 
up"), as anger or other strong feeling: usually 
with up. 
Can economy of time or money go further than to anni- 
hilate time and space, and bottle up [as does the phono- 
graph] for posterity the mere utterance of man, without 
other effort on his part than to speak the words ? 
N. A. Rev., CXXVI. 536. 
bottle 3 (bot'l), . [Early mod. E. also bottel, 
botelle, botle; < ME. botel, < OF. botel, m., equiv. 
to botelle, fern., dim. of botte, a bundle: see 
botfi.] A quantity, as of hay or grass, tied or 
bundled up. [Now chiefly prov. Eng.] 
Although it be nat worth a botel hay. 
Chaucer, Prol. to Manciple's Tale, 1. 14. 
Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle of hay. 
Shak., M. N. D., iv. 1. 
To look for a needle In a bottle of hay (= in a hay- 
stack), to engage in a hopeless search. 
bottle-alet (bot'l-al), . Bottled ale. 
Selling cheese and prunes, and retail'd bottle-ale. 
Beau, and Fl., Captain, ii. 2. 
bottle-bellied (bot'l-bel"id), , Having a belly 
shaped like a bottle ; having a swelling, pro- 
tuberant belly ; pot-bellied. 
Some choleric, bottle-bellied old spider. 
Irving, Sketch-Book, p. 381. 
bottle-bird (bot'1-berd), . A bird that builds 
a bottle-shaped pensile nest. 
We came across, in our meanderings, a small tree from 
the branches of which were hanging a number of bottle- 
birds nests. Their shape is like an elongated egg very 
sharp at the small end, rather bulging out at the other 
end, while the opening is at the side. The bird is some- 
thing like a sparrow, witli a considerable touch of the yel- 
low of a canary. E. Sartorim, In the Soudan, p. 185. 
bottle-boot (bot'l-bpt), H. A leathern case to 
hold a bottle while it is being corked. 
bottle-brush (bot'l -brush), n. 1. A brush 
for cleaning bottles. 2. The field-horsetail, 
Bqvtoetttm arvense. 3. The mare's-tail, Hip- 
puris vulgaris. 4i. In Australia, the Calliste- 
mou lanceolatiis. See CalJistemon Bottle-brush 
grass, a common name in the United States for the As- 
jtrella, Uystrix. 
638 
bottle-bump (bot'1-bump), n. [A corruption 
of butter-bump, bitter-bump.'] A name given in 
some districts to the bittern, Rota arm steltaris. 
bottle-carrier (bot'1-kar'i-ur), . A device for 
carrying a number of uncorked bottles, used 
in wine-cellars. It consists of a frame with a handle, 
in which each bottle is held by a spring-pad at the bottom 
and by a boss or projection which enters the mouth. 
bottle-case (bot'1-kas), n. The wicker- or bas- 
ket-work covering of a demijohn or carboy. 
Bottle-case loom, a machine for weaving bottle-cases. 
bottle-chart (bot'l-chart), . A marine chart 
exhibiting the set of ocean surface-currents 
compiled from papers bearing date, latitude, 
and longitude, found in bottles which have 
been thrown from ships and washed upon the 
beach or picked up by other ships. The time be- 
tween the throwing of such bottles ami their recovery on 
shore has varied from a few days to sixteen years, and the 
distance from a few miles to five thousand miles. 
bottle-clip (bot'l-klip), n. A device for closing 
the mouth of a bottle ; a substitute for a cork. 
bottle-coaster (bot'l-kos'ter), n. A kind of 
deep tray with divisions for bottles, in which 
decanters of wine or cordial are passed round 
a dinner- or banquet-table after the dessert: 
sometimes made for one decanter only. 
The two Lady R.'s, . . . like two decanters in a bottle- 
coaster, with such magnificent diamond labels round their 
necks. Miss Edgeworth, Belinda, v. 
bottle-cod (bot'1-kod), . A name given in 
Jamaica to the plant Capparis cynophallophora, 
from the shape of the fruit. 
bottle-companion, bottle-friend (bot'1-kom- 
pan"yon, -frend), . A companion or frienei in 
drinking or conviviality. 
Sam, who is a very good bottle-companion, has been the 
diversion of his friends. Addison, Spectator, No. 89. 
bottle-conjurer (bot'l-kun"jer-er), n. One who 
exhibits feats of necromancy with a bottle, as 
extracting from it a variety of liquids or more 
than was put in, or putting in what apparently 
cannot pass through the neck. 
Which to that bottle-conjurer, John Bull, 
Is of all dreams the first hallucination. 
Byron, Don Juan, vii. 44. 
bottled (bot'ld), a. [< bottle? + -ecft.-] 1. Kept 
or contained in a bottle: as, bottled porter. 
2. Big-bellied : as, " that bottled spider," Shak., 
Rich. III., iv. 4. [Bare.] 
bottle-dropsy (bot'l-drop"si), n. A dropsy 
which affects the abdomen only ; ascites. 
bottle-fish (bot'1-fish), n. 1. A name of sundry 
plectognath fishes of the family Tetrodontidai. 
2. A name of the Saecopharyruc ampullaceus, 
a remarkable fish representing a peculiar fam- 
ily of the order Lyomeri. See Saccopharyngida'. 
bottle-flower (bot'l-flou"er), . A plant, Cen- 
taurea Ci/anus ; the bluebottle. 
bottle-friend, M. See bottle-companion. 
bottle-glass (bot'1-glas), n. A cheap grade of 
glass, usually of a dull deep-green color, used 
for making common bottles, etc. 
bottle-gourd (bot'1-gord), . The fruit of La- 
genaria vitlgaris, natural order Cucurbitaceai. 
See gourd and Lagenaria. 
bottle-grass (bof'l-gras), n. A kind of grass, 
Setaria viridis. See Setarta. 
bottle-green (bot'1-gren), . and a. I. n. A 
green color like that of common bottle-glass. 
II. a. Of a dark-green color. 
bottlehead (bot'1-hed), n. 1. A more correct 
though not common name for the whale called 
the bottlenose (which see). 2. A name of the 
black-bellied plover, Squatarola helvetica. 
bottle-holder (bot'l-hol'der), . 1. A glass- 
maker's tool for holding the body of a bottle 
while forming the neck. 2. A rack for holding 
bottles. 3. One who waits upon another in 
a prize-fight, administering refreshment, etc. ; 
hence, a backer; a second; a supporter, en- 
courager, or adviser in a conflict or trial of 
any kind. 
An old bruiser makes a good bottle-holder. 
Smollett, Adv. of Ferd., Count Fathom. 
Lord Palmerston considered himself the bottle-holder of 
oppressed states. London Timeg. 
bottle-imp (bot'1-imp), n. See Cartesian devil, 
under Cartesian. 
bottle-jack (bot'1-jak), . 1. A roasting-jack 
shaped like a bottle. 2. A kind of lifting-jack. 
bottle-mold (bot'l-mold), n. An iron mold 
within which a bottle is blown. 
bottlenose (bot'1-noz), n. 1. A name of sev- 
eral species of cetaceans having bottle-shaped 
noses, (a) Of the species of Hyperobdon, like //. bidens 
of the northern seas, about 25 feet long, (b) Of the species 
of liahenopterui or Globici-ultalus, the caainir-whales Also 
called btittlehead. 
bottom 
2. In med,, an eruption of small, red, suppu- 
rating tubercles on the nose, such as is pro- 
duced by intemperate drinking. Dunglison. 
3. A name at St. Andrews, Scotland, of the sea- 
stickleback, Spiiiachia vulgaris. 4. A name 
for the puffin, Fratercula arctica, from its large 
red-and-blue beak. See bottlc-iuwd. 5. A 
name of the sea-elephant or elephant-seal, 
Macrorliinus leoiiinus, and others of the same 
genus Bottlenose oil. |Prob. a corruption of Botte- 
Icau's (name of a manufacturer) oil.] An inferior grade 
of olive-oil used in making Castile soap. 
bottle-nosed (bot'1-nozd), . Having a bottle- 
shaped nose ; having a nose full and swollen 
about the wings and end, or inflamed by drink- 
ing. 
bottle-Ore (bot'l-6r), n. A name for coarse 
seaweeds, especially one of the rock-weeds, 
Fucus nodosus. 
bottle-pump (bpt'1-pump), . A device for re- 
moving the fluid contents of a bottle. A com- 
mon form is that of a rubber bulb for forcing air into the 
bottle, and a bent tube through which the liquid is driven 
out by the pressure of the air. 
bottler (bot'ler), . [< ME. hotelier ; in mod. 
use as if < bottle^, v., + -er^ ; but historically 
a var. of butler.'] One who bottles ; specifically, 
one whose occupation is to bottle wine, spirits, 
ale, etc. 
bottle-rack (bot'1-rak), n. A rack for holding 
bottles placed in it mouth downward to drain. 
bottle-screw (bot'1-skro), . A corkscrew. 
bottle-Stand (bot'l-stand), . 1. A cruet- 
stand. 2. A wooden rest for draining bottles 
after washing. 
bottle-Stoop (bot'1-stop), n. In med., a wooden 
block grooved above to hold a wide-mouthed 
bottle obliquely so that a powder may be easily 
extracted from it with a knife in dispensing. 
bottle-tit (bot'1-tit), n. A name of the long- 
tailed titmouse, Pants caudattis or Acredula 
caudata: so called from its curious large, pen- 
sile, bottle-shaped nest. See cut under titmouse. 
bottle-track (bot'1-trak), n. The course pur- 
sued in the ocean by a bottle thrown over- 
board with a note of latitude, longitude, and 
date, and so affording some data for estimat- 
ing the set and velocity of currents. See 
bottle-chart. 
bottle-tree (bot'1-tre), w. An Australian tree, 
- Sterculia ntpestris, so called from the shape of 
its trunk, 
which re- 
sembles a 
soda - water 
bottle. The 
natives make 
nets of its fibers 
and quench 
their thirst 
from reservoirs 
of sap which 
are formed in 
the stem. 
bottle-wax 
(bot'1-waks), 
n. Astiffwax 
used to seal 
the mouths 
of bottles 
and jars. 
bottling-machine (bot'ling-ma-shen"), n. A 
machine for filling and corking bottles. 
bottom (bot'um), n. and a. [E. dial, also bot- 
ton; = Sc. boddem, boddum, etc.. < ME. bottom, 
bottome, botome, botym, botme, earlier bothom, 
boflium, botltam, < AS. botm = OS. bodom = 
OFries. *bodem, boden, North Fries, bom, 
NFries. boem, beam = D. bodem = LG. bodden 
= OHG. bodam, MHG. bodem, G. boden = Icel. 
botn = OSw. botn, Sw. batten = ODan. bodn, 
Dan. bund, bottom; prob. = L. f audits (for 
*f \ulnus) (whence ult. E. fund, found 2 , J'otnidn- 
Kon, fundamental, etc.) = Gr. m>6[i>/i; bottom, 
= Skt. budhna, depth, ground. Cf. Gael, bonn, 
sole, foundation, bottom, = Ir. bonn, sole, = W. 
ban, stem, base, stock.] I. . 1. The lowest 
or deepest part of anything, as distinguished 
from the top ; utmost depth, either literally or 
figuratively ; base ; foundation ; root : as, "the 
bottom of a hill, a tower, a tree, of a well or 
other cavity, of a page or a column of figures. 
Ye consider not the matter to the bottom. 
l.titiitn'i: Mi Scrm. bef. F,dw. VI., 1549. 
Objections . . . built on the same bottom. Atterbury. 
All customs were founded upon some >>"tt>tt/i nf reason. 
Sir T. Bi-virnf. I rn-lnirial, i. 
2. The ground under any body of water: as, a 
rocky bottom ; a sandy bottom ; to lie on the 
bottom of the sea. 3. In phyg. geog., the low 
Bottle-tree (Sterctilia rufestris). 
