The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word VIAL
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result VIAL
- Bottle for perfume that's disgusting, we hear
- Tube through Liverpool’s opening
- Bottle – six litres, containing ale initially
- Bottle of essential medicament finally disposed of
- Small bottle, one in private chamber brought up
- Going through litre bottle
- What’s glass, holding liquid, contributing to joviality?
- Bottle snatched by gorilla, I veer backwards
- Full of life, having given up, for some, the bottle
- Small vessel going through lake
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What does VIAL mean?
VIAL noun- A glass vessel or bottle, especially a small tube-shaped bottle used to store medicine, perfume or other chemical.
- To put or keep in, or as in, a vial.