bottle(1) (iou) and sacbrood (medicine)

bottle(1) (iou)

bottle noun1. LME.
[Old French boteille (mod. bouteille) from medieval Latin butticula dim. of late Latin buttis BUTT noun3.]
A narrow-necked vessel, orig. of leather, now usu. of glass or plastic, for storing liquids. LME.
beer bottle, feeding-bottle, hot-water bottle, ink bottle, milk bottle, water bottle, Wine bottle, etc.
b. spec. An infant's feeding-bottle. M19.
c. A hot-water bottle. M19.
d. A metal cylinder for liquefied or compressed gas. E20.
The quantity (esp. of liquor) held by a bottle. L17.
The act or habit of drinking alcoholic liquor. E18.
A collection or share of money. slang. L19.
a. In full bottle and glass. = ARSE noun. rhyming slang. M20.
b. Courage, nerve, guts. slang. M20.
Phrases: hit the bottle: see HIT verb. lose one's bottle slang lose one's nerve. magnetic bottle: see MAGNETIC adjective. new Wine in old bottles: see Wine noun. no bottle, not much bottle slang no good, useless. on the bottle drinking heavily, addicted to alcohol. over a bottle while drinking. ship in a bottle: see SHIP noun 1.
Comb.: bottle-age time spent by a Wine etc. maturing in the bottle; bottle-arsed adjective (of type) wider at one end than the Other; bottle bank a receptacle for used bottles to be left for recycling of glass; bottle blonde (of a woman's hair) of a shade of blonde that looks as though it has been artificially lightened or bleached; bottle-brush (a) a cylindrical brush for cleaning the insides of bottles; (b) a plant suggestive of this, esp. an Australian shrub (e.g. banksia or callistemon) with brushlike flowers; bottle-fed adjective, bottle-feed verb trans. & intrans., bottle-feeding: with milk from a feeding-bottle rather than from a woman's breast; bottle-glass coarse dark-green glass; bottle-gourd: see GOURD 1; bottle-green adjective & noun dark green; bottle-head (now rare or obsolete) (a) a stupid person; (b) = bottlenose (c) below; bottle-holder a person who holds a bottle, esp. (arch.) a pugilist's second; bottleneck (a) the neck of a bottle; spec. one used over a guitarist's finger to produce sliding effects on the strings; any implement so used; guitar-playing with sliding effects; (b) a narrow place where road traffic etc. readily becomes congested; an obstruction to the even flow of production etc.; bottlenose (a) a swollen nose or snout; (b) dial. a puffin; (c) (more fully bottlenose whale) a whale of the genus Hyperoodon, or a dolphin of the genus Tursiops, with a long snout; bottle-nosed adjective having a swollen nose or snout; bottle-opener a device for removing the caps from bottles of beer etc.; bottle party a drinking-party; a party to which each guest brings a bottle of Wine etc.; bottle-tit dial. the long-tailed tit, Aegithalos caudatus (so called from the form of its nest); bottle tree an Australian tree of the genus Brachychiton, of the sterculia family, with a swollen bottle-shaped trunk; bottle-washer colloq. a menial, a factotum, an underling.
bottle-o(h) noun (Austral. & NZ colloq.) a collector of empty bottles L19.

sacbrood (medicine)

sacbrood

A viral disease affecting the larvae of bees.

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