PHIALLED

Verb

phialled

simple past tense and past participle of phial

Anagrams

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Source: Wiktionary


PHIAL

Phi"al, n. Etym: [F. fiole, L. phiala a broad, flat, shallow cup or bowl, Gr. Vial.]

Definition: A glass vessel or bottle, especially a small bottle for medicines; a vial.

Phi"al, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Phialed; p. pr. & vb. n. Phialing.]

Definition: To put or keep in, or as in, a phial. Its phial'd wrath may fate exhaust. Shenstone.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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