[f. as prec. + HEAD.]

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  † 1.  A var. of BEETLE-HEAD (see BEETLE sb.1 3); a stupid fellow. Obs. or arch.

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1654.  Gayton, Festiv. Notes, III. iii. 80. Is it the custome of this Country you bottle-Head, to use Knight-Errants after this manner.

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1815.  Scott, Guy M., xliv. But why, for a blind bottlehead, did ye not ask the guineas?

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  † 2.  Some plant. Obs.

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1713.  Petiver, in Phil. Trans., XXVIII. 188. Purple Salamanca Bottle-head. Ray 324. 8.

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  3.  The Bottle-nosed Whale (so-called); see BOTTLE-NOSE 2.

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1819.  Rees, Cycl., s.v., Bottle-head, a species of whale.

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  Hence † Bottle-headed = beetle-headed; ‘void of wit.’ Grose, 1796.

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