\Ley"den phi"al\ (f[imac]"al).(Elec.)
A glass jar or bottle used to accumulate electricity. It is
coated with tin foil, within and without, nearly to its top,
and is surmounted by a brass knob which communicates with the
inner coating, for the purpose of charging it with
electricity. It is so named from having been invented in
Leyden, Holland.

\Phi"al\, n. [F. fiole, L. phiala a broad, flat, shallow
cup or bowl, Gr. ?. cf. {Vial}.]
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}.]
To put or keep in, or as in, a phial.
      Its phial'd wrath may fate exhaust.      --Shenstone.