Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Methol

Methol , noun

[Greek {not transcribed} wine + -ol.]

(Chemistry) An earlier technical name of methyl alcohol or wood spirit, now called methanol; 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.