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A large wine bottle. They passed the magnum to one another freely. Sir W. Scott .

is an orifice for discharging a fluid, or for other purposes; as, the nipple of a nursing bottle; the nipple of a percussion lock, or that part on which the cap is put and through which the fire passes to the charge.

ow, road, etc.; also, to inclosed structures or objects; as, open houses, boxes, baskets, bottles, etc.; also, to means of communication or approach by water or land; as, an open harbor or roadstead. Through the gate, Wide open and unquarded, Satan passed. Milton

Some unusual appendage about the pistil, as the bottle-shaped body in the sedges, and the bristles or scales in some other genera of the Sedge family, or Cyperaceæ.

A glass vessel or bottle, especially a small bottle for medicines; a vial.

An unintoxicating beverage which expels the cork with a pop from the bottle containing it; as, ginger pop; lemon pop, etc. Hood.

ied to the auks, and having a short, thick, swollen beak, whence the name; -- called also bottle nose, cockandy, coulterneb, marrot, mormon, pope, and sea parrot.

A specific gravity bottle; a standard flask for measuring and comparing the densities of liquids. [Also written pyknometer.]

n which articles are deposited for keeping or arranged for display; as, a clothes rack; a bottle rack, etc.

faintness, or the like; to bring back to life or health; to cure; to heal. The wine in my bottle will recover him. Shak.

cse by the introduction of water; -- applied especially to hollow vessels; as, to rinse a bottle. "Like a glass did break i' the rinsing." Shak.

rbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of; as, to roil wine, cider, etc. , in casks or bottles; to roil a spring.

A wide-mouthed bottle with glass stopper for holding chemicals, especially crystallized salts.

A thin, flat cork used for stopping a wide-mouthed bottle; also, a thin wooden bung for casks.

A siphon bottle. See under Siphon, n.

A siphon bottle. Inverted siphon, a tube bent like a siphon, but having the branches turned upward; specifically (Hydraulic Engineering), a pipe for conducting water beneath a depressed place, as from one hill to another across an intervening valley, following the depression of the ground. -- Siphon barometer. See und…

A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids. See Bottle, 1. "Skins of wine." Tennyson.

The sense by which odors are perceived; the sense of smell. Locke. Smelling bottle, a small bottle filled with something suited to stimulate the sense of smell, or to remove faintness, as spirits of ammonia.

Fragments; atoms; finders. [Prov. Eng.] Smash the bottle to smithers. Tennyson.

lt becomes about twenty-five feet long, and its head is very large and thick. Called also bottle-nosed whale.