wine bottleful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wine bottlesful
Senses: examples: text: They all began the acid the day they were admitted, one drachm at firſt being diluted in a wine bottleful of water, which was given to each in the courſe of the day;[…].
ref: 1798, John Rollo, Cases of the Diabetes Mellitus; with the Results of the Trials of Certain Acids, and Other Substances, in the Cure of the Lues Venerea, 2nd edition, London: […] T. Gillet, for C. Dilly, […], page 528:
text: Each packet of Inkstand Powder makes a wine bottleful of Ink, price 1s.
ref: 1831 September 10, Newcastle Courant, number 8172, Newcastle upon Tyne: […] Charles Henry Cook, […]:
text: These shreds must next be put into a wooden can, perfectly clean, with an infusion of three common wine bottlesful of some dry and sound wine, such as Vin de Graves, Barsac, Hock, or Moselle, after which the can should be placed as near a fire as may be considered prudent, for a wooden vessel.
ref: 1834, F[rederick] C[harles] Husenbeth, “On the fining of wine, and its good effects when properly applied; also on the method of preparing a wholesome fining, and the manner how to use it for the different sorts of wines in use in this country”, in A Guide for the Wine Cellar or a Practical Treatise on the Cultivation of the Vine, and the Management of the Different Wines Consumed in this Country, London: Effingham Wilson, […], page 81:
text: The result will be about a wine bottleful of the finest Black Draught, which will keep for a long time.[…]The following prescriptions for mixtures are calculated in the proper strength to make a wine bottleful of each mixture, and the proper dose of each, will be as follows:—[…].
ref: 1876, J. H. Shorthouse, The Common Sense of Medicine; or, The Art of Healing in a Nutshell, London: A. H. Baily & Co., […], pages 183–184:
text: To a wine bottleful of spirits of wine add a large teaspoonful of corrosive sublimate;[…].
ref: [1878], Montagu Browne, “Preservative Soaps, Powders, &c.”, in Practical Taxidermy: A Manual of Instruction to the Amateur in Collecting, Preserving, and Setting Up Natural History Specimens of All Kinds, London: “The Bazaar” Office, […], →OCLC, page 46:
text: Four pounds of apples, cored and cut up, but not peeled, or green gooseberries, or green peaches and apples, mixed, one wine bottleful of vinegar, one pound of coarse sugar.
ref: 1880 June 12, “The Ladies’ Column”, in The Sheffield & Rotherham Independent, volume LXIV, number 8010, page 9:
text: A useful solution for ear-dressing is made of Cooper’s powder dip—3 ounces rubbed into paste with a little water; mix with ¾ lb. of soft soap and a little more water, and a wine bottleful of raw linseed oil, mix, then add a wine bottleful of paraffin, mix the whole thoroughly together, then add water gradually, stirring all the time to make the mixture up to 4 gallons; this can be applied with paint brushes or with swabs, or the syringe, both to the ears and under the tails.
ref: 1921, Journal of the Department of Agriculture, page 61:
text: It’s no small matter, spilling the equivalent of a wine bottleful of blood (vintage stuff, distilled over the decades in some of the finest bars between here and Amman) and having a surgeon practise macrame on your throat with needle and thread.
ref: 1981 November 9, Geoff Johnson, “Hello, world. I’m back, minus tonsils”, in The Citizen, Ottawa, Ont., page 57:
glosses: Alternative form of wine-bottleful.