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A yard, staff, or rod, used as a measure. [Obs.] Shak.

See Meathe. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A stable crystalline compound obtained by the decomposition of hemoglobin. It is found in old blood stains.

spermaceti as an ethereal salt of several fatty acids, and regarded as an alcohol of the methane series.

t, colorless, gaseous, inflammable hydrocarbon, CH4; marsh gas. See Marsh gas, under Gas. Methane series (Chem.), a series of saturated hydrocarbons, of which methane is the first member and type, and (because of their general chemical inertness and indifference) called also the paraffin (little affinity) series. The l…

An instrument, resembling a eudiometer, to detect the presence and amount of methane, as in coal mines.

A fermented beverage made of honey and water; mead. Gay.

See Methylene.

The hypothetical hydrocarbon radical CH, regarded as an essential residue of certain organic compounds.

A binary compound of methyl with some element; as, aluminium methide, Al2(CH3)6.

e Me. [R., except in poetry.] In all ages poets have been had in special reputation, and, methinks, not without great cause. Spenser.

A salt of methionic acid.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a sulphonic (thionic) acid derivative of methane, obtained as a stable white crystalline substance, CH2.(SO3H)2, which forms well defined salts.

y procedure or process; regular manner of doing anything; hence, manner; way; mode; as, a method of teaching languages; a method of improving the mind. Addison.

Arranged with regard to method; disposed in a suitable manner, or in a manner to illustrate a subject, or to facilitate practical observation; as, the methodical arrangement of arguments; a methodical treatise. "Methodical regularity." Addison.

The art and principles of method.

The system of doctrines, polity, and worship, of the sect called Methodists. Bp. Warburton.

One who observes method. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to methodists, or to the Methodists. -- Meth`o*dis"tic*al*ly, adv.

The act or process of methodizing, or the state of being methodized.