Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who exhibits feats of necromancy with a bottle, as extracting from it a variety of liquids or more than was put in, or putting in what apparently cannot pass through the neck.
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Examples
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The bottle-conjurer could just as soon have got into his quart bottle as Puff could into the Beaufort coat at the time of which we are writing.
Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833
hernesheir commented on the word bottle-conjurer
A word for the magic-minded.
November 22, 2010