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The larvæ of several species of botfly, especially those larvæ which infest the stomach, throat, or intestines of the horse, and are supposed to be the cause of various ailments. [Written also botts.]

A small boot; a lady's boot.

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

A dark shade of green, like that of bottle glass. -- Bot"tle-green`, a.

An inswept frame. [Colloq.]

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

Having the nose bottleshaped, or large at the end. Dickens.

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

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

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

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

A corkscrew. Swift.

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

The lowest part of anything; the foot; as, the bottom of a tree or well; the bottom of a hill, a lane, or a page. Or dive into the bottom of the deep. Shak.

A slow alcoholic fermentation during which the yeast cells collect at the bottom of the fermenting liquid. It takes place at a temperature of 4º - 10º C. (39º - 50ºF.). It is used in making lager beer and wines of low alcohol content but fine bouquet.

Having at the bottom, or as a bottom; resting upon a bottom; grounded; -- mostly, in composition; as, sharp-bottomed; well- bottomed.

Without a bottom; hence, fathomless; baseless; as, a bottomless abyss. "Bottomless speculations." Burke.

A contract in the nature of a mortgage, by which the owner of a ship, or the master as his agent, hypothecates and binds the ship (and sometimes the accruing freight) as security for the repayment of money advanced or lent for the use of the ship, if she terminates her voyage successfully. If the ship is lost by perils…

a bud or button, or a kind of trefoil, at the end; furnished with knobs or buttons. Cross bottony (Her.), a cross having each arm terminating in three rounded lobes, forming a sort of trefoil.

See Bots.