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UK
/fˈaɪəl/
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NOUN
- a small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle)
How To Use phial In A Sentence
- Instead of replying, he took out a small plastic phial from his bag and handed it to her. GRACE
- Missouri fortunately escaped. opened my trunks and boxes and exposed the articles to dry. found my papers damp and several articles damp. the stoper had come out of a phial of laudinum and the contents had run into the drawer and distroyed a gret part of my medicine in such manner that it was past recovery. waited very impatiently for the return of The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
- They are plunged in a solution of ammonium chloride A, contained in a glass phial or beaker, which is closed to suppress evaporation. The Story of Electricity
- He lifted a small glass phial that gleamed ruby-red, removed its stopper, and put four drops into a cup. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
- The ephialtes, or nightmare, is called by the common people witch-riding.
- As enchantingly shown in a sequence at a parfumerie in Grasse, Coco gets around to choosing the test phial bearing the number five. Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
- Another variety of witchcraft container is the glass phial which turns up in 18th-century contexts as a charm against evil creatures. An American Witch Bottle
- It smells sweet and thick, and although the fragrance is alcohol-based and has a regular sort of consistence, one can't help but expect it to be gooey and oozing suggestively out of some ancient-looking phial. Mirra & Mirra by J & E Atkinsons: Perfume Review
- She swabbed my arm, prepared her hypodermic and told me she'd need four phials. Times, Sunday Times
- a phial with hiera picra, and another with paregoric, and another with Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works