bottle bellied (botlbel"id)

Having a belly shaped like a bottle; having a swelling, protuberant belly; pot-bellied. Some choleric, bottle - bellied old spider. Irving , Sketch-Book, p. 381. bottle-bird (bot'l-bėrd), n . A bird that builds a bottle-shaped pensile nest. We came acro , in our meander ings, a small tree, from the branches of which were hanging a number of bottle birds' nests. Their shape is like an elongated egg, very sharp at the small end, rather bulging out at the other end, while the opening is at the side. The bird is something like a sparrow, with a considerable touch of the yellow of a canary. E. Sartorius , In the Soudan, p. 185. bottle-boot (bot'l-böt), n. A leathern case to hold a bottle while it is being corked. bottle-brush (bot'l-brush), n. 1. A brush for cleaning bottles. - 2. The field-horsetail, Equisetum arvense.-3. The mare's-tail, Hip puris vulgar is.-4. In Australia, the Calliste mon lanceolatus. See Callistemon. - Bottle-brush gra , a common name in the United States for the As prella Hystrix, IMG:content-2361.png:[blocks in formation] given in of butter - bump, bitter - bump.] A name given in some districts to the bittern, Botaurus stellar is. bottle-carrier (bot'l-kari-er), n. A device for carrying a number of uncorked bottles, used in wine-cellars. It consists of a frame with a handle, in which each bottle is held by a spring-pad at the bottom and by a bo or projection which enters the mouth.