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vial

[vahy-uhl, vahyl]

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noun

Also, phial. a small container, as of glass, for holding liquids: a vial of rare perfume; a vial of medicine.

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verb (used with object)

to put into or keep in a vial.

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Idiom

pour out vials of wrath, to wreak vengeance or express anger: In her preface she pours out vials of wrath on her detractors.

Origin:
1300–50; Middle English viole, variant of fiole phial

Can be confused: vial, vile, viol.

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Enclosed is an air bubble that floats to the highest part of the vial.

Catching addicts is easy: if the police frisk enough people in druggy areas, they are sure to find a crack vial or two.

She finds the spider and either flicks it into a vial with a spoon or uses a suction device.

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vial (ˈvaɪəl, vaɪl)

—n
	a less common variant of phial

[C14: fiole, from Old French, from Old Provençal fiola, from Latin phiala, from Greek phialē; see phial]

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Word Origin & History

vial

c.1300, variant of fyole (see phial).

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"For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men."

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