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a little glass vessel with a narrow aperture intended to be closed with a stopper; as, a vial of medicine. [Written also phial.] Take thou this vial, being then in bed, And this distilled liquor thou off. Shak.

osits made by flowing water; washed away from one place and deposited in another; as, alluvial soil, mud, accumulations, deposits.

Before the flood, or Deluge, in Noah's time.

Of or relating to the bivium.

One of the moons or satellites of the planet Jupiter. [Obs.] Derham.

tainment, or to eating and drinking, with accompanying festivity; festive; social; gay; jovial. Which feasts convivial meetings we did name. Denham.

A person of convivial habits.

The good humor or mirth indulged in upon festive occasions; a convivial spirit or humor; festivity.

In a convivial manner.

Of or pertaining to a flood or deluge, esp. to the great deluge in the days of Noah; diluvian.

One who explains geological phenomena by the Noachian deluge. Lyell.

Belonging to effluvia.

Of or pertaining to exuviæ. "Exuvial layers." "Exuvial deposits."

Belonging to rivers; growing or living in streams or ponds; as, a fluvial plant.

One who exlpains geological phenomena by the action of streams. [R.]

A large Asiatic crocodilian (Gavialis Gangeticus); -- called also nako, and Gangetic crocodile.

Of or pertaining to the indulges or crop of birds.

Of or pertaining to the god, or the planet, Jupiter. [Obs.] Our jovial star reigned at his birth. Shak. The fixed stars astrologically differenced by the planets, and esteemed Martial or Jovial according to the colors whereby they answer these planets. Sir T. Browne.

One who lives a jovial life. Bp. Hall.

The quality or state of being jovial. Sir T. Herbert.