Also 6 bytyl-. [f. as prec. + 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.)
[1547. Boorde, Brev. Health, cclxxxvi. 94 b. There be two kyndes [of polypus], the one is a bytyl nose.]
1635. Brereton, Trav. (1844), 94. Captain Ragg … famous … for his great bottle nose.
1748. Smollett, Rod. Rand., i. Consider that one feature makes not a face, and that though thou art, perhaps, distinguished by a bottle-nose, twenty of thy neighbours may be in the same predicament.
1811. Byron, 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.
1668. T. Smith, Voy. to Constant., in Misc. Curiosa (1708), III. 15. We saw … several Bottle-noses, fish of about three yards long.
1775. Dalrymple, in Phil. Trans., LXVIII. 397. Some bottle noses, and vast flocks of flying fish.
1807. Home, ibid., XCVII. 97. The bottle-nose porpoise and large bottle-nose whale.
1854. R. Owen, in Circ. Sc. Org. Nat., I. 278. The great bottle-nose or hyperoodon.
1863. Kingsley, Water-Bab., vii. 279. Razor-backs, and bottle-noses.
† 3. A dial. name of the puffin. Obs.
1678. Ray, Willughby’s Ornith., 325. The Bird called in South-Wales Gulden head, Bottle-nose and Helegug.
