資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Bottle \Bot"tle\, n. [OE. bote, botelle, OF. botel, bouteille,
   F. bouteille, fr. LL. buticula, dim. of butis, buttis, butta,
   flask. Cf. {Butt} a cask.]
   1. A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but
      formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for
      holding liquids.

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

   3. Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in
      the bottle.

   Note: Bottle is much used adjectively, or as the first part
         of a compound.

   {Bottle ale}, bottled ale. [Obs.] --Shak.

   {Bottle brush}, a cylindrical brush for cleansing the
      interior of bottles.

   {Bottle fish} (Zo["o]l.), a kind of deep-sea eel
      ({Saccopharynx ampullaceus}), remarkable for its baglike
      gullet, which enables it to swallow fishes two or three
      times its won size.

   {Bottle flower}. (Bot.) Same as {Bluebottle}.

   {Bottle glass}, a coarse, green glass, used in the
      manufacture of bottles. --Ure.

   {Bottle gourd} (Bot.), the common gourd or calabash
      ({Lagenaria Vulgaris}), whose shell is used for bottles,
      dippers, etc.

   {Bottle grass} (Bot.), a nutritious fodder grass ({Setaria
      glauca} and {S. viridis}); -- called also {foxtail}, and
      {green foxtail}.

   {Bottle tit} (Zo["o]l.), the European long-tailed titmouse;
      -- so called from the shape of its nest.

   {Bottle tree} (Bot.), an Australian tree ({Sterculia
      rupestris}), with a bottle-shaped, or greatly swollen,
      trunk.

   {Feeding bottle}, {Nursing bottle}, a bottle with a rubber
      nipple (generally with an intervening tube), used in
      feeding infants.

資料來源 : WordNet®

nursing bottle
     n : a bottle that holds a baby's milk; has a rubber teat [syn: {feeding
         bottle}]