feeding bottle

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feeding bottle - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Bottle \Bot"tle\, n. [OE. bote, botelle, OF. botel, bouteille,
     F. bouteille, fr. LL. buticula, dim. of butis, buttis, butta,
     flask. Cf. Butt a cask.]
     1. A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but
        formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for
        holding liquids.
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     2. The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains;
        as, to drink a bottle of wine.
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     3. Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in
        the bottle.
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     Note: Bottle is much used adjectively, or as the first part
           of a compound.
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     Bottle ale, bottled ale. [Obs.] --Shak.
  
     Bottle brush, a cylindrical brush for cleansing the
        interior of bottles.
  
     Bottle fish (Zool.), a kind of deep-sea eel (Saccopharynx  ampullaceus
        ), remarkable for its baglike gullet, which
        enables it to swallow fishes two or three times its won
        size.
  
     Bottle flower. (Bot.) Same as Bluebottle.
  
     Bottle glass, a coarse, green glass, used in the
        manufacture of bottles. --Ure.
  
     Bottle gourd (Bot.), the common gourd or calabash
        (Lagenaria Vulgaris), whose shell is used for bottles,
        dippers, etc.
  
     Bottle grass (Bot.), a nutritious fodder grass (Setaria  glauca
         and Setaria viridis); -- called also foxtail,
        and green foxtail.
  
     Bottle tit (Zool.), the European long-tailed titmouse; --
        so called from the shape of its nest.
  
     Bottle tree (Bot.), an Australian tree (Sterculia  rupestris
        ), with a bottle-shaped, or greatly swollen,
        trunk.
  
     Feeding bottle, Nursing bottle, a bottle with a rubber
        nipple (generally with an intervening tube), used in
        feeding infants.
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  Feeding \Feed"ing\, n.
     1. the act of eating, or of supplying with food; the process
        of fattening.
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     2. That which is eaten; food.
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     3. That which furnishes or affords food, especially for
        animals; pasture land.
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     Feeding bottle. See under Bottle.
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feeding bottle - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  feeding bottle
      n 1: a vessel fitted with a flexible teat and filled with milk
           or formula; used as a substitute for breast feeding infants
           and very young children [syn: bottle, feeding bottle,
           nursing bottle]