bottle-gourd

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• Gourd

  ·noun A false die. ·see <<Gord>>. II. Gourd ·noun ·Alt. of <<Gourde>>. III. Gourd ·noun A dipper o...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Gourd

  1) Jonah's gourd (Jonah 4:6-10), bearing the Hebrew name kikayon (found only here), was probably the...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• Gourd

  Kikayan only in (Jonah 4:6-10) The plant which is intended by this word, and which afforded shade to...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Bottle

  ·noun A bundle, ·esp. of hay. II. Bottle ·noun Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Bottle

  A vessel made of skins for holding wine (Josh. 9:4. 13; 1 Sam. 16:20; Matt. 9:17; Mark 2:22; Luke 5:...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• Bottle

  The Arabs keep their water, milk and other liquids in leathern bottles. These are made of goatskins....

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Gourd tree

  ·- A tree (the Crescentia Cujete, or calabash tree) of the West Indies and Central America. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• sour-gourd

  n. Same as baobab (q.v.). ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• Bottle green

  ·- A dark shade of green, like that of bottle glass. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Bottle-nose

  ·noun The <<Puffin>>. II. Bottle-nose ·noun A cetacean of the Dolphin family, of several species, a...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Bottle-nosed

  ·adj Having the nose bottle-shaped, or large at the end. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Woulfe bottle

  ·noun A kind of wash bottle with two or three necks; — so called after the inventor, Peter Woulfe, ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Bottle Lane

  See Botolph's Lane. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• bottle-headed

  Void of wit. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• phos bottle

  A. bottle of phosphorus: used by housebreakers to light their lanthorns. Ding the phos; throw away t...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• soldier's bottle

  A large one. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• bottle-brush

  n. name given to various speciesof Callistemon and Melaleuca, N.O. Myrtaceae; the Purple Bottle-bru...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• bottle-swallow

  n. a popular name for the bird Lagenoplastis ariel, otherwise called the FairyMartin. See Martin. T...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• bottle-tree

  n. an Australian tree, variousspecies of Sterculia, i.q. Kurrajong (q.v.). Sonamed from its appearan...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• junk-bottle

  The ordinary black glass porter-bottle. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• bottle-bump

  The bittern, so called on our east coast. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• bottle-charts

  Those on which the set of surface currents are exhibited, derived from papers found in bottles which...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• bottle-nose

  , or bottle-nosed whale A name applied to several of the smaller cetaceans of the northern seas, m...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• empty bottle

  See marine officer. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• sea-bottle

  The pod or vesicle of some species of sea-wrack or Fucus gigantea of Cape Horn and the Straits of Ma...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Bottle Alley, Bottle Yard, Bishopsgate

  See Brittania Place. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Bottle-neck frame

  ·add. ·- An inswept frame. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• bawdy-house bottle

  A very small bottle; short measure being among the many means used by the keepers of those houses, t...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• bottle-nosed whale

  See bottle-nose ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Cock and Bottle Court

  East out of Aldersgate Street, in Aldersgate Ward Without (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 122). Not name...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.