1. [n]  glass or plastic vessel; cylindrical with a narrow neck; no handle
2. [n]  the quantity contained in a bottle
3. [v]  put into bottles; of liquids such a milk or water
4. [v]  store in bottles, as of liquids or gas

1. \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.
   
   

2. \Bot"tle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bottled}p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Bottling}.]
   To put into bottles; to inclose in, or as in, a bottle or
   bottles; to keep or restrain as in a bottle; as, to bottle
   wine or porter; to bottle up one's wrath.
   
   

3. \Bot"tle\, n. [OE. botel, OF. botel, dim. of F. botte;
   cf. OHG. bozo bunch. See {Boss} stud.]
   A bundle, esp. of hay. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Chaucer.
   --Shak.
   
   

a vessel made of skins for holding wine (Josh. 9:4. 13; 1 Sam. 16:20; Matt. 9:17; Mark 2:22; Luke 5:37, 38), or milk (Judg. 4:19), or water (Gen. 21:14, 15, 19), or strong drink (Hab. 2:15).

Earthenware vessels were also similarly used (Jer. 19:1-10; 1 Kings 14:3; Isa. 30:14). In Job 32:19 (comp. Matt. 9:17; Luke 5:37, 38; Mark 2:22) the reference is to a wine-skin ready to burst through the fermentation of the wine. "Bottles of wine" in the Authorized Version of Hos. 7:5 is properly rendered in the Revised Version by "the heat of wine," i.e., the fever of wine, its intoxicating strength.

The clouds are figuratively called the "bottles of heaven" (Job 38:37). A bottle blackened or shrivelled by smoke is referred to in Ps. 119:83 as an image to which the psalmist likens himself.