Mēth'yl or Mēth'yle, n.

(mēth'il), n. [Gr. μετά, after, with, and ὕλη, wood.] (Chem.) A gas of an ethereal smell, consisting of two equivalents of carbon and three of hydrogen. It is contained in oil of winter-green combined with oxygen and salicylic acid. [Written also methule.]