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Wood spirit

noun

A light volatile flammable poisonous liquid alcohol; used as an antifreeze and solvent and fuel and as a denaturant for ethyl alcohol. Synonyms: methanol, methyl alcohol, wood alcohol.

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"Wood spirit" Quotes from Famous Books

... Desirous and Prosper le Gai go adventuring like Una and her Red Cross knight, or Enid and Geraint. Or, again, Isoult in her page's dress, and forsaken by her wedded lord, is like Viola or Imogen or Rosalind, or Constance in "Marmion," or any lady of old romance. Or sometimes again she is like a wood spirit, or an elemental creature such as was Undine. The invented place names, High March, Wanmeeting, Market Basing, etc., with their transparent air of actuality, sound an echo from William Morris' prose romances, like "The House of the Wolfings" and "The Sundering Flood." As in the last named, and in ...

— A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century • Henry A. Beers

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Words linked to "Wood spirit" : propenyl alcohol, alcohol, allyl alcohol, fuel