Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Carbinol \Car"bi*nol\, n. [Carbin (Kolbe's name for the radical)
   + -ol.] (Chem.)
   Methyl alcohol, {CH3OH}; -- also, by extension, any one in
   the homologous series of paraffine alcohols of which methyl
   alcohol is the type.