Definitions for: Phial

[n] a small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle)

Webster (1913) Definition: Ley"den phi"al (f[imac]"al).(Elec.)
A glass jar or bottle used to accumulate electricity. It is
coated with tin foil, within and without, nearly to its top,
and is surmounted by a brass knob which communicates with the
inner coating, for the purpose of charging it with
electricity. It is so named from having been invented in
Leyden, Holland.

Phi"al, n. [F. fiole, L. phiala a broad, flat, shallow
cup or bowl, Gr. ?. cf. Vial.]
A glass vessel or bottle, especially a small bottle for
medicines; a vial.

Phi"al, v. 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.

Synonyms: ampoule, ampul, ampule, vial

See Also: bottle

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