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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Foxtail \Fox"tail`\, n.
     1. The tail or brush of a fox.
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     2. (Bot.) The name of several kinds of grass having a soft
        dense head of flowers, mostly the species of {Alopecurus}


        and {Setaria}.
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     3. (Metal.) The last cinders obtained in the fining process.
        --Raymond.
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     {Foxtail saw}, a dovetail saw.
  
     {Foxtail wedging}. See {Fox wedge}, under {Fox}.
        [1913 Webster] fox trot

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  foxtail
       n : grasses of the genera Alopecurus and Setaria having dense
           silky or bristly brushlike flowering spikes [syn: {foxtail
           grass}]

















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