Bottle
a vessel with a relatively small neck adapted to hold liquids. The first bottles were of leather (Josh. ix: 4). Such leathern bottles are mentioned by Homer, Herodotus and Vergil, as being in use among the Greeks, Egyptians and Romans, as they still are in Spain, Sicily, Africa, and the East. Earthenware bottles followed (Jer. xiii: 12); these are generally furnished with handles, and are called flasks. Modern bottles are chiefly of glass, and glass bottles have been found at Pompeii.