- The technical name of methyl alcohol or wood spirit; also,
by extension, the class name of any of the series of alcohols of the
methane series of which methol proper is the type. See Methyl alcohol,
under Methyl.
- Hair spray - Lack a request for varnish - Protective coating for wood - Resinous varnish - Varnish - A varnish, consisting of a solution of shell-lac in
alcohol, often colored with gamboge, saffron, or the like; -- used for
varnishing metals, papier-mache, and wood. The name is also given to
varnishes made of other ingredients, esp. the tough, solid varnish of
the Japanese, with which ornamental objects are made. - To cover with lacquer.
- A colorless liquid, CHBr3, having an agreeable odor and
sweetish taste. It is produced by the simultaneous action of bromine
and caustic potash upon wood spirit, alcohol, or acetone, as also by
certain other reactions. In composition it is the same as chloroform,
with the substitution of bromine for chlorine. It is somewhat similar
to chloroform in its effects.