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bottle-nose|ˈbɒt(ə)lˌnəʊz|
Also 6 bytyl-.
[f. as bottle n.2 + nose. In sense 1 pronounced and usually written as two words.]
1. A nose resembling a bottle, a swollen nose. (With the form bytyl-nose = beetle-nose, cf. the confusion of bottle-head and beetle-head.)
[1547Boorde Brev. Health cclxxxvi. 94 b, There be two kyndes [of polypus], the one is a bytyl nose. ]1635Brereton Trav. (1844) 94 Captain Ragg..famous..for his great bottle nose. 1748Smollett Rod. Rand. i. 1811Byron Hints fr. Hor. 58 Black eyes, black ringlets, but—a bottle nose!
2. The Bottle-nosed Whale: a name given to several of the Dolphin family, esp. the genus Hyperoödon.
1668T. Smith Voy. to Constant. in Misc. Curiosa (1708) III. 15 We saw..several Bottle-noses, fish of about three yards long. 1775Dalrymple in Phil. Trans. LXVIII. 397 Some bottle noses, and vast flocks of flying fish. 1807Home ibid. XCVII. 97 The bottle-nose porpoise and large bottle-nose whale. 1854R. Owen in Circ. Sc. Org. Nat. I. 278 The great bottle-nose or hyperoodon. 1863Kingsley Water-Bab. vii. 279 Razor-backs, and bottle-noses.
†3. A dial. name of the puffin. Obs.
1678Ray Willughby's Ornith. 325 The Bird called in South-Wales Gulden head, Bottle-nose and Helegug. |