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BOTTLE (Fr. bouteille, from a diminutive of the See also: wine for use in a bottle made of goat's skin
.
The See also: ancient Egyptians used skins for this purpose, and from the language employed by See also: Herodotus (ii
.
121), it appears that a bottle was formed by sewing up the skin and leaving the See also: projection of the See also: leg and See also: foot to serve as a vent, which was hence termed Irobewv
.
The aperture was closed with a plug or a See also: string
.
Skin
bottles of various forms occur on See also: Egyptian monuments
.
The Greeks and See also: Romans also were accustomed to use bottles made of skins; and in the See also: southern parts See also: 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 (ix
.
4), where it is said that
the See also: Gibeonites took " old sacks upon their asses, and wine-bottles old and See also: rent and 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 from new wine
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Skins are still most extensively used throughout western See also: Asia for the See also: conveyance and storage of See also: water
.
It is
an error to represent the bottles of the ancient See also: Hebrews as being made exclusively of skins
.
In Jer. xix
.
1 the See also: prophet speaks of " a See also: potter's earthen vessel." The Egyptians (see See also: EGYPT: See also: Art and Archaeology) possessed vases and bottles of hard See also: stone, alabaster,
See also: glass, ivory, See also: bone, See also: porcelain, See also: bronze, See also: silver and gold, and also of glazed pottery or See also: common earthenware
.
In See also: modern times bottles are usually made of glass (q.v.), or occasionally of earthenware
.
The glass bottle industry has attained enormous dimensions, whether for wine, See also: beer, &c., or See also: mineral See also: 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 See also: PLANTS, a genus of Australian plants, known botanically as Callistemon, and belonging to the See also: myrtle See also: family (Myrtaceae)
.
They take their name from the resemblance of the See also: head of See also: flowers to a bottle-brush
.
They are well known in cultivation as greenhouse shrubs; the flower owes its beauty to the numerous long thread-like stamens which far exceed the small petals
.
Callistemon salignus is a valuable hard See also: wood
.
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