'Feeding bottle' definitions:

Definition of 'feeding bottle'

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noun
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]

Definition of 'Feeding bottle'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; as, to drink a bottle of wine. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in the bottle. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: Bottle is much used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Feeding bottle'

From: GCIDE
  • Feeding \Feed"ing\, n.
  • 1. the act of eating, or of supplying with food; the process of fattening. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. That which is eaten; food. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. That which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals; pasture land. [1913 Webster]
  • Feeding bottle. See under Bottle. [1913 Webster]

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