PHIAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does phial mean? 

• PHIAL (noun)
  The noun PHIAL has 1 sense:

1. a small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle)

  Familiarity information: PHIAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHIAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

ampoule; ampul; ampule; phial; vial

Hypernyms ("phial" is a kind of...):

bottle (a glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a narrow neck that can be plugged or capped)

 Context examples 

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!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Here were a phial of some salt, and the record of a series of experiments that had led (like too many of Jekyll’s investigations) to no end of practical usefulness.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He had bounded across the room and had wrenched a small phial from her hand.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Accordingly, it was locked up in his box, and drawn off by himself in a phial, and administered to me through a piece of quill in the cork, when I was supposed to be in want of a restorative.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He has been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

That will do;—now wet the lip of the phial.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The phial, to which I next turned my attention, might have been about half full of a blood-red liquor, which was highly pungent to the sense of smell and seemed to me to contain phosphorus and some volatile ether.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

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.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He was dressed in clothes far too large for him, clothes of the doctor’s bigness; the cords of his face still moved with a semblance of life, but life was quite gone; and by the crushed phial in the hand and the strong smell of kernels that hung upon the air, Utterson knew that he was looking on the body of a self-destroyer.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)