flask

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A small container, such as a bottle, having a narrow neck and usually a cap, especially:
2. n. A flat, relatively thin container for liquor.
3. n. A container or case for carrying gunpowder or shot.
4. n. A vial or round long-necked vessel for laboratory use.
5. n. A frame for holding a sand mold in a foundry.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A bottle, especially one of some peculiar form or material (see below): as, a flask for wine or oil.
2. n. Specifically— A narrow-necked globular glass bottle: as, a Florence flask.
3. n. A metallic or other portable dram-bottle, with flat sides: as, a pocket-flask.
4. n. A vessel, generally of metal or horn, for containing gunpowder, carried by sportsmen, usually furnished with a measure of the charge at the top.
5. n. An iron vessel for containing mercury, in the shape of a long bottle. A flask of mercury from California is about 75 pounds.
6. n. A vessel used in a laboratory for sublimation, for digesting in a sand-bath, or for any similar purpose.
7. n. A shallow frame of wood or iron used in foundries to contain the sand and patterns employed in molding and casting. If the mold is contained in two pieces, these form a two-part flask. The upper part holds the case or cope, and the lower the drag. Also molders' flask, molding-flask.
8. n. A bed in a gun-carriage.
9. n. A long narrow case, as for arrows; a quiver; hence, a set of arrows in a quiver.

Wiktionary

1. n. A container used to discreetly carry a small amount of a hard alcoholic beverage; a pocket flask.
2. n. sciences Laboratory glassware used to hold larger volumes than test tubes, normally having a narrow mouth of a standard size which widens to a flat or spherical base.
3. n. engineering A container for holding a casting mold, especially for sand casting molds.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A small bottle-shaped vessel for holding fluids.
2. n. A narrow-necked vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes; as of sheet metal, to carry gunpowder in; or of wrought iron, to contain quicksilver; or of glass, to heat water in, etc.
3. n. obsolete A bed in a gun carriage.
4. n. (Founding) The wooden or iron frame which holds the sand, etc., forming the mold used in a foundry; it consists of two or more parts; viz., the cope or top; sometimes, the cheeks, or middle part; and the drag, or bottom part. When there are one or more cheeks, the flask is called a three part flask, four part flask, etc.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. bottle that has a narrow neck
2. n. the quantity a flask will hold