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bottled, ppl. a.|ˈbɒt(ə)ld|
[f. bottle n.2 and v.1]
†1. Resembling a bottle, protuberant, swollen.
1594Shakes. Rich. III, i. iii. 242 Why strew'st thou Sugar on the Bottel'd Spider, Whose deadly Web ensnareth thee about? 1768Tucker Lt. Nat. I. 448, I..saw a black bottled spider as big as myself. 1768Wales in Phil. Trans. LX. 109 Their noses small, and..what is generally termed bottled. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1789) C c iij b, The chambers of mortars..are spherical..conical, bottled or concave.
2. Kept or corked up in a bottle. bottled gas, gas stored in liquid form in portable containers.
1660Boyle New Exp. Phys.-Mech. xxviii. 217 A Vessel full of bottl'd drink. 1662Fuller Worthies ii. 115 This is believed..the Original of bottled-Ale in England. 1769Mrs. Raffald Eng. Housekpr. (1778) 359 Any kind of bottled fruit. 1829Southey Sir T. More II. 345 Brisk reputations, indeed, are like bottled twopenny, or pop. 1837Marryat Dog-Fiend xlviii, Give them some bottled beer. 1930Engineering 4 July 28/2 In the United States, ‘bottled’ gas, in the form of liquified propane and butane..is employed. 1960News Chron. 20 July 6/6 The little bottled gas cookers are just like ordinary ones.
3. fig.
a. Kept under restraint, pent up.
1840Hood Up Rhine 45 One with whom he could pour out his bottled-up grievances. 1853C. Brontë Villette xvi, He fumed like a bottled storm.
b. Stored up, concentrated.
1872W. W. Reade Martyrdom of Man 399 Life is bottled sunshine.
c. bottled lightning: (a) = lightning n. 2; (b) concentrated vigour or energy; also attrib.
1839Dickens Nich. Nick. xlix. 489 Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew. 1899W. James Talks to Teachers 209 To all who looked upon her an impression as of ‘bottled lightning’ was irresistibly conveyed. Ibid. 210 There are plenty of bottled-lightning temperaments in other countries, and plenty of phlegmatic temperaments here.
4. slang. Drunk; intoxicated.
1927N.Y. Times 9 Jan. (heading) British pilot tells police, ‘If you say I am bottled, I will agree.’ 1932A. Huxley Brave New World v. 91 Bottled as she was..Lenina did not forget to take all the contraceptive precautions prescribed by the regulations. 1939J. B. Priestley Let People Sing iii. 64 The gov'nor must be good an' bottled. |