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Ethane; -- sometimes so called because regarded as consisting of two methyl radicals. See Ethane.

Not methodical; without method or systematic arrangement; without order or regularity; confused. Addison.

Without method; confusedly; unsystematically.

Want of method.

To render immethodical; to destroy the method of; to confuse. [R.]

A white crystalline substance forming the ethyl salt of malamic acid.

apparatus," which is declared to be "auto-regulative." Most of the chief features of the method are borrowed from current methods used in many institutions for training feeble-minded children, and dating back especially to the work of the French-American physician Edouard O. Seguin (1812- 80).

A nitro derivative of methane obtained as a mobile liquid; -- called also nitrocarbol.

Ethyl oxamate, obtained as a white scaly crystalline powder.

Methyl oxamate, obtained as a pearly white crystalline substance.

Formic aldehyde, regarded as a methylene derivative.

ucleus of a large number of derivatives; -- so named because regarded as composed of five methylene residues. Cf. Trimethylene, and Tetramethylene.

A large American bombycid moth (Callosamia promethea). Its larva feeds on the sassafras, wild cherry, and other trees, and suspends its cocoon from a branch by a silken band.

Of or pertaining to Prometheus. See Prometheus. "Promethean fire." Shak.

y means of fire stolen from heaven. Jupiter, being angry at this, sent Mercury to bind Prometheus to Mount Caucasus, where a vulture preyed upon his liver.

A method of teaching reading by giving first attention to phrases and sentences and later analyzing these into their verbal and alphabetic components; -- contrasted with alphabet and word methods.

thing; an indeterminate or unknown event; an unspecified task, work, or thing. There is something in the wind. Shak. The whole world has something to do, something to talk of, something to wish for, and something to be employed about. Pope. Something attemped, something done, Has earned a night's repose. Longfellow.…

A hypothetical hydrocarbon, C4H8, analogous to trimethylene, and regarded as the base of well-known series or derivatives.

hem.) A prefix or combining form (also used adjectively) indicating the presence of three methyl groups.

characteristic herringlike odor. It is regarded as a substituted ammonia containing three methyl groups.