1. phial - Noun
2. phial - Verb
A glass vessel or bottle, especially a small bottle for medicines; a vial.
To put or keep in, or as in, a phial.
Source: Webster's dictionaryLenin was sent into Russia by the Germans in the same way that you might send a phial containing a culture of typhoid or cholera to be poured into the water supply of a great city, and it worked with amazing accuracy. Winston Churchill