phial

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In very sooth She may love him but with the light love of youth Again silence; she takes out the little phial, looks long at it and says under her breath This phial--were I its powers to try-- My husband would sleep for ever and aye Horror-struck No, no!

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  1. noun A vial.

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  • In very sooth She may love him but with the light love of youth Again silence; she takes out the little phial, looks long at it and says under her breath This phial--were I its powers to try-- My husband would sleep for ever and aye Horror-struck No, no! —  The Feast at Solhoug
  • Round the neck of the phial was a label, and thereon was written this one word, "_Release_." —  The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories
  • For what avails it to carry about in your travelling bag a phial of strong ammonia and to live in more jeopardy of death by asphyxiation than you ever were by snakes, unless you have some guarantee that, when it is your fate to be bitten by a snake, the phial will be at hand? —  Concerning Animals and Other Matters
  • The eulogy seemed to be for the phial, the denunciation for the "accursed Americans," which phrase Frank heard him repeat several times The doctor then replaced the phials on the shelf and picked up an evening paper printed in German that was lying on a chair. —  Army Boys on German Soil Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs
  • The contents of the phial were analysed and justified Frank's suspicions. —  Army Boys on German Soil Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs
 

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  1. Middle English fiole, from Old French, from Late Latin fiola, shallow vessel, alteration of Latin phiala, from Greek phialē.
 

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