What is "methylated"

Usage examples of "methylated".

Though this does not sound a very practical procedure, there is evidently some foundation for this statement, as the following note which appeared in the Chemist and Druggist, January 6, 1923, would seem to prove: 'A liquid preparation for preventing, and also curing, blight in fruit trees, wherein the base is a liquid obtained by boiling the young shoots of the Elder tree or bush, mixed with suitable proportions of copper sulphate, iron sulphate, nicotine, soft soap, methylated spirit and slaked lime.

Instead, it was curled most splendidly upwards all the way along as though it had had a permanent wave put into it or possibly curling tongs heated in the mornings over a tiny flame of methylated spirits.

But methylated spirit is more wholesome when taken into the system in large quantities than paraffine oil.

But methylated spirit is more wholesome when taken into the system in large quantities than paraffin oil.

Behind her were shelves of gas masks and medicines: bleach ointments, clouded glass bottles of petrol, methylated spirits, kerosene, liquid paraffin, and carbon tetrachloride.

It is hopeless attempting to make a wood fire, so you light the methylated spirit stove, and crowd round that.

The spirit room alone holds fifteen miles of shelving containing jar upon jar of animals preserved in methylated spirit.

Walker sent M`Namara round his ear next day in a jar of methylated spirit, but Mac's wife was very angry about it, and it led to a good deal of ill-feeling.

If you want to, you can kill the spider humanely by freezing it and then by pouring methylated spirits on it to preserve it.

So gladdied up when nicechild Kevin Mary (who was going to be commandeering chief of the choirboys' brigade the moment he grew up under all the auspices) irishsmiled in his milky way of cream dwibble and onage tustard and dessed tabbage, frighted out when badbrat Jerry Godolphing (who was hurrying to be cardinal scullion in a night refuge as bald as he was cured enough unerr all the hospitals) furrinfrowned down his wrinkly waste of methylated spirits, ick,and lemoncholy lees, ick, and pulverised rhubarbarorum, icky.

The fireball made a strange crackling sound as it passed and left behind a smell that some likened to methylated spirits and others described as just awful.

These home brews were powerful concoctions known generally as skokiaan, and according to the recipe of the individual distiller, could contain anything from methylated spirits to the corpses of poisonous snakes and aborted infants.

She makes it herself, he told Hendrick in a loud aside, and she puts in carbide and methylated spirits and dead snakes and aborted babies to give it kick and flavour.

I was just getting some stains off the floor with this can of methylated spirits.

Old Snakebellys qualities obviously combined those of Irish potheen, wool alcohol and methylated spirits.