Meaning of wine bottleful | Babel Free

Examples

“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;[…].”

“Each packet of Inkstand Powder makes a wine bottleful of Ink, price 1s.”

“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.”

“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:—[…].”

“To a wine bottleful of spirits of wine add a large teaspoonful of corrosive sublimate;[…].”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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