Obs. Also 4–5 fyole, viol(e, fiolle, 6 fyoyle. [a. OF. fiole, phiole = Pr. fiola, med.L. fiola (class. L. phiala, Gr. φιάλη): see PHIAL, VIAL.] A bowl, cup, or phial.
13[?]. E. E. Allit. P., B. 1476. Fyoles fretted with flores & fleeȝ of golde.
a. 1375. Joseph Arim., 289.
| And oþer two after hem · with sencers soone, | |
| set wiþ riche stones · and a viole of sence. |
1382. Wyclif, Num. vii. 13. A silueren fiole [1388, viol], hauynge seuenti sicles aftir the peyse of the seyntuarye.
c. 1400. Maundev. (Roxb.), xi. 43. xii. fiolles of gold.
14[?]. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 583. Fiola, a ffyole or a cruet.
1490. Caxton, Eneydos, xiii. 47. Dydo, by grete deuocyon, shedde the fyole fulle of the holi libacion.
1541. R. Copland, Guydon’s Quest. Chirurg. Demaunde. Of what quantyte is the galle? Answere. It conteyneth peraduenture a glasse full, or the mountenaunce of a fyoyle.
