See also:

• BOTTLE (Fr. bouteille, from a diminutive of the Lat. butta, a flask; cf. Eng. " butt ")

BOTTLE (Fr. bouteille, from a diminutive of the See also:

• LAT

Lat. butta, a See also:

• FLASK

flask; cf. Eng. " See also:

• BUTT
• BUTT, ISAAC (1813-1879)

butt ")  , a See also:

• VESSEL (O. Fr. vaissel, from a rare Lat. vascellum, dim. of vas, vase, urn)

vessel for containing liquids, generally as opposed to one for drinking from (though this probably is not excluded), and with a narrow See also:

• NECK (O. Eng. hnecca; the word appears in many Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch ride, Ger. Nacken; in O. E. the common word was heals; cf. Ger. Hals)

neck to facilitate closing and pouring . The first bottles were probably made of the skins of animals . In the Iliad (iii . 247) the attendants are represented as bearing See also:

• WINE (Lat. vinum, Gr. oivos)

wine for use in a See also:

• BOTTLE (Fr. bouteille, from a diminutive of the Lat. butta, a flask; cf. Eng. " butt ")

bottle made of See also:

• GOAT (a common Teut. word; O. Eng. gat, Goth. gaits, Mod. Ger. Geiss, cognate with Lat. haedus, a kid)

goat's skin . The See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient Egyptians used skins for this purpose, and from the See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language employed by See also:

• HERODOTUS (c. 484-425 B.C.)

Herodotus (ii . 121), it appears that a bottle was formed by sewing up the skin and leaving the See also:

• PROJECTION

projection of the See also:

• LEG
• LEG (a word of Scandinavian origin, from the Old Norwegian leggr, cf. Swed. lagg, Dan. laeg; the O. Eng. word was sceanca, shank)

leg and See also:

• FOOT

foot to serve as a vent, which was hence termed Irobewv . The See also:

• APERTURE (from Lat. aperire, to open)

aperture was closed with a plug or a See also:

• STRING

string . Skin bottles of various forms occur on See also:

• EGYPTIAN

Egyptian monuments . The Greeks and See also:

• ROMANS
• ROMANS, EPISTLE TO THE

Romans also were accustomed to use bottles made of skins; and in the See also:

• SOUTHERN

southern parts See also:

• EUROPE

Europe they are still used for the transport of wine . The first of explicit reference to bottles of skin in Scripture occurs in See also:

• JOSHUA, BOOK OF

Joshua (ix . 4), where it is said that the See also:

• GIBEONITES

Gibeonites took " old sacks upon their asses, and wine-bottles old and See also:

• RENT

rent and See also:

• BOUND, or BOUNDARY (from O. Fr. bonde, Med. Lat. bodena or butina, a frontier line)

bound up." The objection to putting " new wine into old bottles " (Matt. ix . 17) is that the skin, already stretched and weakened by use, is liable to burst under the pressure of the See also:

• GAS

gas from new wine .

Skins are still most extensively used throughout western See also:

• ASIA

Asia for the See also:

• CONVEYANCE

conveyance and storage of See also:

• WATER

water . It is an See also:

• ERROR (Lat. error, from errare, to wander, to err)

error to represent the bottles of the ancient See also:

• HEBREWS, EPISTLE TO THE

Hebrews as being made exclusively of skins . In Jer. xix . 1 the See also:

• PROPHET (Irpo4i ri7s)

prophet speaks of " a See also:

• POTTER, ALONZO (1800-1865)
• POTTER, HENRY CODMAN (1835–1908)
• POTTER, J
• POTTER, JOHN (c. 1674-1747)
• POTTER, PAUL (1625—1654)
• POTTER, PHILIP CIPRIANI HAMBLEY (1792—1871)

potter's earthen vessel." The Egyptians (see See also:

• EGYPT

EGYPT: See also:

• ART

Art and See also:

• ARCHAEOLOGY (from Gr. &pxa1a, ancient things, and Xoyos, theory or science)

Archaeology) possessed vases and bottles of hard See also:

• STONE
• STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
• STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
• STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
• STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
• STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
• STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
• STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
• STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)

stone, See also:

• ALABASTER
• ALABASTER, or ARBLASTIER, WILLIAM (1567-1640)

alabaster, See also:

• GLASS
• GLASS (O.E. glees, cf. Ger. Glas, perhaps derived from an old Teutonic root gla-, a variant of glo-, having the general sense of shining, cf. " glare," " glow ")
• GLASS, STAINED

glass, See also:

• IVORY (Fr. ivoire, Lat. ebur)
• IVORY, SIR JAMES (1765-1842)

ivory, See also:

• BONE (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages, in many of which it is confined to the shank of the leg, as in the German Bein)
• BONE, HENRY (1755-1834)

bone, See also:

• PORCELAIN

porcelain, See also:

• BRONZE

bronze, See also:

• SILVER

silver and See also:

• GOLD
• GOLD [symbol Au, atomic weight 195.7(H = 1),197.2(0 =16)]

gold, and also of glazed pottery or See also:

• COMMON

common earthenware . In See also:

• MODERN

modern times bottles are usually made of glass (q.v.), or occasionally of earthenware . The glass bottle See also:

• INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry has attained enormous dimensions, whether for wine, See also:

• BEER

beer, &c., or See also:

• MINERAL

mineral See also:

• WATERS, TERRITORIAL

waters; and labour-saving machinery for filling the bottles has been introduced, as well as for corking or stoppering, for labelling and for washing them . BOTTLE-See also:

• BRUSH (from Fr. brosse, which, like the English word, means both the undergrowth of a wood and the instrument; if the word in both these meanings is ultimately the same, then the origin is from a bundle of brushwood used as a brush or broom, but this is h
• BRUSH, GEORGE DE FOREST (1855– )

BRUSH See also:

• PLANTS

PLANTS, a genus of Australian plants, known botanically as Callistemon, and belonging to the See also:

• MYRTLE

myrtle See also:

• FAMILY

family (Myrtaceae) . They take their name from the resemblance of the See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head of See also:

• FLOWERS, ARTIFICIAL

flowers to a bottle-brush . They are well known in cultivation as greenhouse shrubs; the See also:

• FLOWER (Lat. flos, floris; Fr. fleur)
• FLOWER, SIB

flower owes its beauty to the numerous See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long See also:

• THREAD (0. Eng. praed, literally, that which is twisted, prawan, to twist, to throw, cf. " throwster," a silk-winder, Ger. drehen, to twist, turn, Du. draad, Ger. Draht, thread, wire)

thread-like stamens which far exceed the small petals . Callistemon salignus is a valuable hard See also:

• WOOD, ANTHONY A2 (1632-1695)
• WOOD, JOHN GEORGE (1827—1889)
• WOOD, MRS HENRY [ELLEN] (1814—1887)
• WOOD, SEARLES VALENTINE (1798—188o)

wood .