Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
A glass or plastic vessel or bottle, especially a small tube-shaped bottle used to store medicine, perfume or other chemicals.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo keep or put (something, especially a liquid) in, or as if in, a vial (noun sense).
From Middle English vial, viole, a variant of fiole, phiole, phial (“small bowl or cup for liquids, etc.; flask”) [and other forms]: see further at phial. Doublet of phiale.
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