3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Foxtail \Fox"tail`\, n. 1. The tail or brush of a fox. [1913 Webster] 2. (Bot.) The name of several kinds of grass having a soft dense head of flowers, mostly the species of {Alopecurus} and {Setaria}. [1913 Webster] 3. (Metal.) The last cinders obtained in the fining process. --Raymond. [1913 Webster] {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. [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] 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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