Definition of Pill bottle

1. Noun. A small bottle for holding pills.

Generic synonyms: Bottle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pill Bottle

pilifera
piliferous
piliferous cyst
piliform
piligerous
pilimiction
piling
piling unmerchantable material
pilings
pilis
pill
pill-rolling
pill-rolling tremor
pill-willet
pill bottle (current term)
pill bug
pill bugs
pill head
pill in the pocket
pill mill
pill mills
pill pusher
pill roller
pillage
pillaged
pillager
pillagers
pillages

Literary usage of Pill bottle

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"Also PILL-BOTTLE. See MEAT-IN-THE-POT. PILL-DRIVER (-MONGER or -PEDDLER).—An itinerant apothecary : see TRADES and PROFESSIONS. 1763. ..."

2. The School Journal (1895)
"Apparatus for Illustrating Buoyancy and the Transmission of Pressure Through Liquids—A small pill bottle about half full of water and half full of air is ..."

3. Elementary General Science by Daniel Russell Hodgdon (1918)
"... bottle full of water, and invert in it a small pill bottle containing enough water to just allow it to float. Cork the bottle, and adjust the stopper so ..."

4. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1915)
"... pill-bottle doll, dressed as a baby in long clothes, was pinned to the mother, the tiny head nestling close to where her heart should be. ..."

5. The Microscope: An Illustrated Monthly Designed to Popularize the Subject of (1886)
"1 by winding the paper around a big pill bottle. By means of a razor I divided the smaller tube diagonally at an angle of 35° 25', inserting the bottle to ..."

6. Junior General Science by Daniel Russell Hodgdon (1922)
"Fill a flat-sided quart bottle full of water, and invert in it a pill bottle containing just enough water to allow it to float. Cork the large bottle, ..."

7. Manual of Home-made Apparatus with Reference to Chemistry, Physics, and by John Francis Woodhull (1895)
"Apparatus for Illustrating Buoyancy and the Transmission of Pressure Through Liquids—A small pill bottle about half full of water and half full of air is ..."

8. Date Rape Drugs: Hearing Before the Committee on Commerce, U.S. House of ...edited by Fred Upton edited by Fred Upton (2000)
"... 200 grams of powder in a pill bottle. Other companies manufacturing products containing GBL are being asked by the FDA to voluntarily recall them. ..."

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