<hw>Bot"ry*o*gen</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <ets><?/</ets> cluster of grapes + <ets>-gen</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Min.)</fld> <def>A hydrous sulphate of iron of a deep red color. It often occurs in botryoidal form.</def>
<h1>Botryoid, Botryoidal</h1> <Xpage=169>
<hw><hw>Bot"ry*oid</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Bot`ry*oid"al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <ets><?/</ets> cluster of grapes + <ets>-oid</ets>.]</ety> <def>Having the form of a bunch of grapes; like a cluster of grapes, as a mineral presenting an aggregation of small spherical or spheroidal prominences.</def>
<h1>Botryolite</h1> <Xpage=169>
<hw>Bot"ry*o*lite</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <ets><?/</ets> cluster of grapes + <ets>-lite</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Min.)</fld> <def>A variety of datolite, usually having a botryoidal structure.</def>
<h1>Botryose</h1> <Xpage=169>
<hw>Bot"ry*ose`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>Having the form of a cluster of grapes.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>Of the racemose or acropetal type of inflorescence.</def>
<i>Gray.</i>
<h1>Bots</h1> <Xpage=169>
<hw>Bots</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt> <ety>[Cf. Gael. <ets>botus</ets> belly worm, <ets>boiteag</ets> maggot.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>The larv\'91 of several species of botfly, especially those larv\'91 which infest the stomach, throat, or intestines of the horse, and are supposed to be the cause of various ailments.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>botts</asp>.]</altsp> <note>See <i>Illust</i>. of <er>Botfly</er>.</note>
<h1>Bottine</h1> <Xpage=169>
<hw>Bot*tine"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. See <er>Boot</er> (for the foot.).]</ety>
<p><b>1.</b> <def>A small boot; a lady's boot.</def>
<p><b>2.</b> <def>An appliance resembling a small boot furnished with straps, buckles, etc., used to correct or prevent distortions in the lower extremities of children.</def>
<i>Dunglison.</i>
<h1>Bottle</h1> <Xpage=169>
<hw>Bot"tle</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>bote</ets>, <ets>botelle</ets>, OF. <ets>botel</ets>, <ets>bouteille</ets>, F. <ets>bouteille</ets>, fr. LL. <ets>buticula</ets>, dim. of <ets>butis</ets>, <ets>buttis</ets>, <ets>butta</ets>, flask. Cf. <er>Butt</er> a cask.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids.</def>
<p><b>2.</b> <def>The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; <as>as, to drink a <ex>bottle</ex> of wine</as>.</def>
<p><b>3.</b> <def>Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; <as>as, to drown one's reason in the <ex>bottle</ex></as>.</def>
<note>&hand; <i>Bottle</i> is much used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound.</note>
<cs><col>Bottle ale</col>, <cd>bottled ale.</cd> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> <i>Shak</i>. -- <col>Bottle brush</col>, <cd>a cylindrical brush for cleansing the interior of bottles.</cd> -- <col>Bottle fish</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>a kind of deep-sea eel (<spn>Saccopharynx ampullaceus</spn>), remarkable for its baglike gullet, which enables it to swallow fishes two or three times its won size.</cd> -- <col>Bottle flower</col>. <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <cd>Same as <er>Bluebottle</er>.</cd> -- <col>Bottle glass</col>, <cd>a coarse, green glass, used in the manufacture of bottles. <i>Ure</i>.</cd> -- <col>Bottle gourd</col> <fld>(Bot.)</fld>, <cd>the common gourd or calabash (<spn>Lagenaria Vulgaris</spn>), whose shell is used for bottles, dippers, etc.</cd> -- <col>Bottle grass</col> <fld>(Bot.)</fld>, <cd>a nutritious fodder grass (<spn>Setaria glauca</spn> and <spn>S. viridis</spn>); -- called also <altname>foxtail</altname>, and <altname>green foxtail</altname>.</cd> -- <col>Bottle tit</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>the European long-tailed titmouse; -- so called from the shape of its nest.</cd> -- <col>Bottle tree</col> <fld>(Bot.)</fld>, <cd>an Australian tree (<spn>Sterculia rupestris</spn>), with a bottle-shaped, or greatly swollen, trunk.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Feeding bottle</col>, <col>Nursing bottle</col></mcol>, <cd>a bottle with a rubber nipple (generally with an intervening tubve), used in feeding infants.</cd></cs>
<h1>Bottle</h1> <Xpage=169>
<hw>Bot"tle</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Bottled</er> <tt>(#)</tt> <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Bottling</er> <tt>(#)</tt>.]</wordforms> <def>To put into bottles; to inclose in, or as in, a bottle or bottles; to keep or restrain as in a bottle; <as>as, to <ex>bottle</ex> wine or porter; to <ex>bottle</ex> up one's wrath.</as></def>
<h1>Bottle</h1> <Xpage=169>
<hw>Bot"tle</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>botel</ets>, OF. <ets>botel</ets>, dim. of F. <ets>botte</ets>; cf. OHG. <ets>bozo</ets> bunch. See <er>Boss</er> stud.]</ety> <def>A bundle, esp. of hay.</def> <mark>[Obs. or Prov. Eng.]</mark>
<i>Chaucer. Shak.</i>
<h1>Bottled</h1> <Xpage=169>
<hw>Bot"tled</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Put into bottles; inclosed in bottles; pent up in, or as in, a bottle.</def>
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