/ˈfaɪəl/, /ˈfaɪəl/, /faɪl/
- datedA bottle or other vessel for containing a liquid; originally any such vessel, especially one for holding a beverage; now (specifically), a small, narrow glass bottle with a cap used to hold liquid chemicals, medicines, etc.
“VVo to you that are rich in Sion, and haue confidence in the mountaine of Samaria: […] That drinke vvine in phials, and are annoynted vvith the beſt oyntment: and they ſuffred nothing vpon the contrit”
“And when he had taken the booke, the foure Beaſts, and foure and twenty Elders fel down before the Lambe, hauing euery one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of Sain”
“AA Is a glaſs phial filled vvith mercury to the ſuperficies DD, or thereabout.”
- transitiveTo keep or put (something, especially a liquid) in, or as if in, a phial.
Formsphials(plural) · phials(present, singular, third-person) · phialing(US, participle, present) · phialling(UK, participle, present) · phialed(US, participle, past) · phialed(US, past) · phialled(UK, participle, past) · phialled(UK, past)