Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
alcohol . - noun Seriously injurious and even fatal effects have been observed as the result of swallowing wood-alcohol (methyl alcohol), or preparations containing it, such as essence of ginger. Injury to vision has repeatedly attracted attention.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
wood alcohol .
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Examples
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P.S. And by fuel sources I mean REAL fuel, such as kerosene or wood-alcohol.
Foraging Killbots Will Be Strictly Vegetarian, Company Assures « Antiwar.com Blog 2009
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Clean your brush in wood-alcohol before putting it away, and keep the shellac bottle tightly corked.
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This is a practical use for it, since it will conserve the coal now used for that purpose, furnish satisfactory power without smoke or dirt, provide cheap power in regions that have no coal mines, and lastly may be made to yield valuable by-products: ammonia, acetic acid, paraffin, tar, creosote, and wood-alcohol.
Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Mary Huston Gregory
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It is even said that the hundreds of acres of sage-brush in the West that have always been considered worse than useless can be made into wood-alcohol and thus become a valuable product.
Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Mary Huston Gregory
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Then comes the wood for distillation into wood-alcohol for use in manufacture and to furnish power in engines.
Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Mary Huston Gregory
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Formaldehyde is evolved either from paraform or from the liquid formalin; formerly it was also obtained by the action of wood-alcohol vapor upon red-hot platinum.
The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) Kenelm Winslow
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It is thought that wood-alcohol will be of especial use to the farmer, since he has so many waste vegetable products, has so much need of power in small quantities and is far from the sources of public service power, such as electric and gas plants.
Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Mary Huston Gregory
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They had just completed, as a relief from the nightly round of lunch rooms, a wood-alcohol meal of canned baked beans, cheese, crackers, and tinned sweet cakes.
Star-Dust Fannie Hurst 1928
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On one occasion there was a party that had a quart of wood-alcohol, and some of its victims died,
Twice Sold, Twice Ransomed Autobiography of Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Ray 1924
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We have had the same trouble with wood-alcohol (they call it methylated spirit here), with the same deplorable results.
My Discovery of England Stephen Leacock 1906
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