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Webster 1913 Edition
Phial
Phi′al
(fī′al)
, Noun.
A glass vessel or bottle, especially a small bottle for medicines; a vial.
Phi′al
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Phialed
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Phialing
.] To put or keep in, or as in, a phial.
Its
phial’d
wrath may fate exhaust. Shenstone.
Webster 1828 Edition
Phial
PHI'AL
,Noun.
1.
A glass vessel or bottle; in common usage, a small glass vessel used for holding liquors, and particularly liquid medicines. It is often written and pronounced vial.2.
A large vessel or bottle made of glass; as the Leyden phial, which is a glass vessel partly coated with tinfoil, to be used in electrical experiments.PHI'AL
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
phial
phial
English
Alternative forms
Noun
phial (plural phials)
- A glass vessel or bottle, especially a small bottle for medicines.
Synonyms
Translations
glass vessel — see vial
Verb
phial (third-person singular simple present phials, present participle phialing, simple past and past participle phialed)
- (transitive) To put or keep in, or as in, a phial.
References
- phial in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913