Phial
['faɪəl]
Definition
(noun.) a small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle).
Typist: Shelley--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A glass vessel or bottle, especially a small bottle for medicines; a vial.
(v. t.) To put or keep in, or as in, a phial.
Inputed by Glenda
Definition
n. a small glass vessel or bottle.
Typist: Oliver
Examples
- She called to me faintly, and pointed to a little phial in her work-box. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I sought the key of the side-door in the kitchen; I sought, too, a phial of oil and a feather; I oiled the key and the lock. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I saw her busied for a moment at a little stand; she poured out water, and measured drops from a phial: glass in hand, she approached me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- You must open the middle drawer of my toilet-table and take out a little phial and a little glass you will find there,--quick! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He put the phial out of sight, and carried the brandy-bottle down-stairs with him, locking it again in the wine-cooler. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- That will do;--now wet the lip of the phial. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He looked round the room and saw a bottle with some brandy in it, and the almost empty opium phial. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He had bounded across the room and had wrenched a small phial from her hand. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Such zests as his particular little phial of cayenne pepper and his pennyworth of pickles in a saucer, were not wanting. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The bar window displayed a choice collection of geranium plants, and a well-dusted row of spirit phials. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It was poured from caldrons and ladles, vomited through long copper tubes, or flung in pots, phials and barrels. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Checked by Jeannette