vi|al

vi|al «VY wa>l», noun, verb, -aled, -al|ing or (especially British) -alled, -al|ling.

–n.

1. a small glass or plastic bottle for holding medicines, liquids, or the like; phial.

2. Figurative. a store or accumulation (of wrath, indignation, or other feeling) poured out upon an offender, victim, or other object (originally in allusion to the seven vials full of the wrath of God mentioned in Revelation 15:7 and 16:1-17): »

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 (W. G. Blaikie).

–v.t.

to put, keep, or store in a vail.

╂[Middle English viole, vial, variant of fiol phial]