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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.

plant (Centaurea cyanus) which grows in grain fields. It receives its name from its blue bottle-shaped flowers.

To bottle. [R.] Phillips.

The bladder campion (Silene inflata).

A kind of wash bottle with two or three necks; -- so called after the inventor, Peter Woulfe, an English chemist.

A board, tray, or table, divided into perforated compartments, for holding cups, bottles, or the like; a kind of cupboard, buffet, or sideboard. Abacus harmonicus (Mus.), an ancient diagram showing the structure and disposition of the keys of an instrument. Crabb.

Any membranous bag shaped like a leathern bottle, as the dilated end of a vessel or duct; especially the dilations of the semicircular canals of the ear.

Like a bottle or inflated bladder; bottle-shaped; swelling. Kirby. Ampullaceous sac (Zoöl.), one of the peculiar cavities in the tissues of sponges, containing the zooidal cells.

A crooked tube of metal, to be introduced into the neck of a bottle for drawing out the liquid without disturbing the sediment or causing a gurgling noise.

A group of Tunicata, often shaped like a two-necked bottle. The group includes, social, and compound species. The gill is a netlike structure within the oral aperture. The integument is usually leathery in texture. See Illustration in Appendix.

The state of being in equipoise; equilibrium; even adjustment; steadiness. And hung a bottle on each side To make his balance true. Cowper. The order and balance of the country were destroyed. Buckle. English workmen completely lose their balance. J. S. Mill.