smelling bottle

English

Noun

smelling bottle (plural smelling bottles)

1. A bottle for smelling salts.
   • 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:

     [A]ll the spectators could easily perceive her perturbation, which manifested itself in frequent palpitations, heart-heavings, and alterations of countenance, in spite of the assistance of a smelling-bottle which she incessantly applied to her nostrils.

   • [1787–1790], [Jane Austen], “Frederic & Elfrida: a novel”, in Volume the First, chapter IV, page 16:

     Consent then Madam to their union & as a reward, this smelling Bottle which I enclose in my right hand, shall be yours & yours forever; I never will claim it again.