单词 | vial |
释义 | vialn. a. A vessel of a small or moderate size used for holding liquids; in later use spec., a small glass bottle, a phial. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > flask, flagon, or bottle > [noun] > phial or ampoule cruetc1384 phialc1384 vialc1386 oil glass1580 thumb-bottle1727 α. β. a1450 Mirk's Festial 146 He toke vyals of cristall and of lambur and of glas, and put þys blod yn hom.1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 284/2 Vyall, a glasse, fiolle.1576 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Queen Elizabeth (1908) 275 Two glasse voyalles for the Lord Howardes servauntes.1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iii. ix. 84 b A cruese or viall ful of sweete and smelling water.1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 433 Glasse vials also and sundry small earthen vessels.1683 W. Hedges Diary 10 May (1887) I. 86 I gave him a small Vyall of Balme of Gilead.1747 J. Wesley Primitive Physick 65 Put a spoonful of this Water in a Vial.a1822 P. B. Shelley Witch of Atlas xvii, in Posthumous Poems (1824) 34 Liquors clear and sweet..She in her chrystal vials did closely keep.1836 A. Combe Physiol. Digestion i. v. 108 Dr. Beaumont put twelve drachms..into a vial..and then placed it in a basin of water on a sand-bath.1871 R. H. Hutton Ess. I. 296 France would not be what she is if men had not believed for a thousand years in the holy vial of Rheims.c1386 G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Prol. & Tale 240 Sondry vessels maad of erthe and glas,..Violes, crosletz, and sublymatories, Cucurbites and alembikes. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 1280 Dere disches of golde & dubleres fayre, Þe vyoles & þe vesselment of vertuous stones. c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 185 Sette þe viol vpon soft colis & lete hem boile. 1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy i. 3052 After þat, for his chefe socour, Sche toke to hym a viol with licour. 1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur v. x. 178 Pryamus toke fro his page a vyolle ful of the four waters that came oute of paradys. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 285/1 Vyole, a glasse, fiolle, uiole. ?1550 H. Llwyd tr. Pope John XXI Treasury of Healthe sig. E.vv Mengle them togither and put them in a vyol of glasse, and stop the mouth thereof close. 1609 T. Dekker Rauens Almanacke sig. F3v The Iewe..spyed the Viall that ye poore man helde in his hand vnder his cloak. 1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall vi. 53 The Air in the little Viol began to dilate it self. 1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 232 I plac'd a thin Viol, well stopp'd up with Wax, within the Smoak of the Vapour. b. In allegorical or purely figurative use.Frequently in allusion to Revelation xv. 7, etc. (see first quots.). ΚΠ 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Rev. xv. 7 Seuen golden violes, ful of the wraththe of God. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Rev. xvi. 1 Go ȝe, and schede ȝe out the seuen violes of Goddis wrath in to erthe. c1420 J. Lydgate Ballad Commend. Our Lady 113 O glorious viole, O vitre inviolate! 1603 M. Drayton Barrons Wars ii. vi. 26 And with a viall fild with banefull wrath..Which in her blacke hand readily she hath, And drops the poyson vpon euery wight. a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) v. iii. 123 You Gods looke downe, And from your sacred Viols poure your graces Vpon my daughters head. View more context for this quotation 1656 T. Blount Glossographia (at cited word) Vials of wrath, mentioned in the Apocalipse, signifie Gods readiness to be fully revenged on sinners. c1680 W. Beveridge Serm. (1729) II. 5 To behold the almighty Creator..pouring out the utmost viols of his wrath..upon them. 1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity iii, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 487 The frighted Angels..o'er the Earth from wrathful Viols pour'd Tempests and Storm. 1780 E. Burke Speech Oeconomical Reformation 38 You have tuns of antient pomp in a vial of modern luxury. 1821 Ld. Byron Marino Faliero (2nd issue) iv. ii. 118 Now the destroying Angel hovers o'er Venice, and pauses ere he pours the vial. 1853 C. Kingsley Hypatia II. ii. 29 Everywhere sensuality, division, hatred, treachery, cruelty, uncertainty, terror..the vials of God's wrath poured out. 1880 W. G. Blaikie Personal Life D. Livingstone vii. 135 For one so patient and good, he had a very large vial of indignation, and on occasion poured it out right heartily over all injustice. Compounds attributive and in other combinations. ΚΠ 1647 H. Hexham Copious Eng. & Netherduytch Dict. A viall-maker, een..Fiolen-maker. 1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. I. 320 There were two little vial bottles and a box of corn-plaster in the drawer of the basin-stand. 1880 L. L. Cameron Three Flower-pots 25 He saw upon the table a large vial bottle with something very black in it. Derivatives ˈvial v. (transitive) to put into a vial; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > insert or put in [verb (transitive)] > into or as into other specific receptacles sackc1405 pokea1425 pipe1465 barrel1466 cask1562 bag1570 vessel1577 basket1582 crock1594 cade1599 maund1604 impoke1611 incask1611 inflask1611 insatchel1611 desk1615 pot1626 cooper1746 kit1769 vat1784 pannier1804 vial1805 flask1855 tub1889 ampoule1946 1805 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 3 46 The distilled perfume of the bookmaker's style..is here not sprinkled over every page, and vialled in every sentence. ˈvialled adj. kept or stored in a vial. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > supply > storage > [adjective] > stored > stored in specific place or receptacle vialled1637 bonded1809 warehoused1819 cellared1848 1637 J. Milton Comus 29 Helping all urchin blasts, and ill lucke signes..Which she with precious viold liquors heales. 1906 T. Hardy Dynasts: Pt. 2nd v. i. 188 The riskful blood of my previsioned line..To linger vialled in my veins alone. ˈvialful n. as much as can be contained in a vial. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > amount defined by capacity > [noun] > amount that fills a receptacle > vial phial-ful1770 vialful1886 1886 J. Ruskin Præterita I. xii. 404 I had, in my little clay pitcher, vialfuls, as it were, of Wordsworth's reverence [etc.]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online March 2022). vialadj. rare. Serving for a way or road. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [adjective] > serving as a road vial1813 1813 J. Forsyth Remarks Excurs. Italy 353 The arch of Augustus, being a vial one, was necessarily much wider than the triumphal arches, which succeeded. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1382adj.1813 |
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