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Little bottle, in Britain
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phial
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vial \Vi"al\, n. [OE. viole, fiole, F. fiole. See Phial .] A small bottle, usually of glass; a little glass vessel with a narrow aperture intended to be closed with a stopper; as, a vial of medicine. [Written also phial .] Take thou this vial, being then ...
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n. a small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle) [syn: vial , ampule , ampul , ampoule ]
Usage examples of phial.
Morin came in, and the Russian gave him a small phial full of a white liquid, and then made as if he would go, but he was kept to supper.
There stood the chrismatory, the small, ornate glass phial in which he had carried the concentrated potion to the holy of holies.
Venus, our folk are already delivering to your vessel phials of drugs, fabrics, and the tubular fullerenes we know your folk especially prize.
Next I bought a joint, a popper, a phial of cocaine and a plug of opium from a fat spade in Times Square and snuffled it all up in a gogo bar toilet.
Richard had tilted the tablets into his palm and pitched the phial away on the triangle of waste-land at the corner of Allen Lane, where Hatty had set him down.
Ram6n had two io-milligram phials of Nalorphine on hand as an antidote.
Ramsey had two io-milligram phials of Nalorphine on hand as an antidote.
Zascai low voices, silhouettes at street corners, or a pickable lock on a field hospital coffer full of medical-grade phials.
But I speak of the cruet sauces, where the quintessence of the sapid is condensed in a phial.
Jacob asked the way to the kitchen, prepared a hot, a very hot poultice, clapped it on and hurried out into the town, returning with a phial of Thebaic tincture.
When Domina Aetherea wakes and finds her most precious possession gone, but the knot apparently untampered with, she will have to conclude that the phial was removed by no human agency.
Patriarch set the burning censer on the table, then uncorked the crystal ampulla that hung on a chain around his neck, a tiny phial with many facets that contained a blood-red liquid.
Each phial in the tin contained one millilitre of colourless liquid, enough for one human-sized injection.
Then his nostrils caught a suggestion of her perfume, Vie de Camille, reminding him of the phial he had acquired from Paris with such difficulty for his musume, Hana--the Flower --and sudden rage swept away his impulse to kindness.
They conferred solemnly together, took her pulse, looked at her eyes, held a phial of her water to the light, and concluded that she was of a melancholic disposition, and should take senna and polypody to purge her head, heart and lung of the evil humours, promote mirth, and enliven the habit of the body.