smelling bottle (smelingbotl)

portable bottle or flask, usually of fanciful form or decorated, ( a ) for containing smelling-salts, or ( b ) for containing an agreeable perfume. Handkerchiefs were pulled out, smelling bottles were handed round; hysterical sobs and screams were heard. Macaulay, Warren Hastings. smelling-salts (smel'ing-salts), n. pl. A preparation of ammonium carbonate with some agreeable scent, as lavender or bergamot, used as a stimulant and restorative in faintne and for the relief of headache. At this point she was so entirely overcome that a squadron of cousins and aunts had to come to the rescue, with perfumes and smelling - salts and fans, before she was sufficiently restored. Harper's Mag ., LXXIX. 547.