ppl. a. [f. BOTTLE sb.2 and v.1]
† 1. Resembling a bottle, protuberant, swollen.
1594. Shaks., Rich. III., I. iii. 242. Why strew’st thou Sugar on the Bottel’d Spider, Whose deadly Web ensnareth thee about?
1768. Tucker, Lt. Nat., I. 448. I … saw a black bottled spider as big as myself.
1768. Wales, in Phil. Trans., LX. 109. Their noses small, and … what is generally termed bottled.
1769. Falconer, Dict. Marine (1789), C c iij 6. The chambers of mortars … are spherical … conical, bottled or concave.
2. Kept or corked up in a bottle.
1660. Boyle, New Exp. Phys.-Mech., xxviii. 217. A Vessel full of bottl’d drink.
1662. Fuller, Worthies, II. 115. This is believed … the Original of bottled-Ale in England.
1769. Mrs. Raffald, Eng. Housekpr. (1778), 359. Any kind of bottled fruit.
1829. Southey, Sir T. More, II. 345. Brisk reputations, indeed, are like bottled twopenny, or pop,.. ‘they sparkle, are exhaled, and fly,’.. not to heaven, but to the Limbo.
1837. Marryat, Dog-fiend, xlviii. Give them some bottled beer.
3. fig. Kept under restraint, pent up.
1840. Hood, Up the Rhine, 45. One with whom he could pour out his bottled-up grievances.
1853. C. Brontë, Villette, xvi. He fumed like a bottled storm.
