bottle

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A receptacle having a narrow neck, usually no handles, and a mouth that can be plugged, corked, or capped.
• noun The quantity that a bottle holds.
• noun A receptacle filled with milk or formula that is fed, as to babies, in place of breast milk.
• noun Intoxicating liquor.
• noun The practice of drinking large quantities of intoxicating liquor.
• transitive verb To place in a bottle.
• transitive verb To hold in; restrain.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A hollow mouthed vessel of glass, wood, leather, or other material, for holding and carrying liquids.
• noun The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains: as, a bottle of wine or of porter.
• noun A dwelling; a habitation: a word extant (as -bottle, -battle) only in some local English names, as Harbottle, Newbottle, Morbattle.
• To put into bottles for the purpose of preserving or of storing away: as, to bottle wine or porter.
• To store up as in a bottle; preserve as if by bottling; shut in or hold back (colloq. “cork up”), as anger or other strong feeling: usually with up.
• noun A quantity, as of hay or grass, tied or bundled up.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun Obs. or Prov. Eng. A bundle, esp. of hay.
• noun A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids.
• noun The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains.
• noun Fig.: Intoxicating liquor.
• noun [Obs.] bottled ale.
• noun a cylindrical brush for cleansing the interior of bottles.
• noun (Zoöl.) 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.
• noun (Bot.) Same as Bluebottle.
• noun a coarse, green glass, used in the manufacture of bottles.
• noun (Bot.) the common gourd or calabash (Lagenaria Vulgaris), whose shell is used for bottles, dippers, etc.
• noun (Bot.) a nutritious fodder grass (Setaria glauca and Setaria viridis); -- called also foxtail, and green foxtail.
• noun (Zoöl.) the European long-tailed titmouse; -- so called from the shape of its nest.
• noun (Bot.) an Australian tree (Sterculia rupestris), with a bottle-shaped, or greatly swollen, trunk.
• noun a bottle with a rubber nipple (generally with an intervening tube), used in feeding infants.
• transitive verb To put into bottles; to inclose in, or as in, a bottle or bottles; to keep or restrain as in a bottle.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A dwelling; habitation.
• noun A building; house.
• noun A container, typically made of glass and having a tapered neck, used for holding liquids.
• noun The contents of such a container.
• noun A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants
• noun UK, informal Nerve, courage.
• noun attributive With one's hair color produced by dyeing.
• noun obsolete A bundle, especially of hay; something tied in a bundle.
• verb transitive To seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption.
• verb transitive, UK To feed (an infant) baby formula.
• verb UK, slang To refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage.
• verb UK, slang To strike (someone) with a bottle.
• verb UK, slang To pelt (a musical act on stage, etc.) with bottles as a sign of disapproval.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun the quantity contained in a bottle
• noun a glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a narrow neck that can be plugged or capped
• verb store (liquids or gases) in bottles
• verb put into bottles
• noun a vessel fitted with a flexible teat and filled with milk or formula; used as a substitute for breast feeding infants and very young children