Bovey Coal :: Bovey coal () A kind of mineral coal, or brown lignite, burning with a weak flame, and generally a disagreeable odor; -- found at Bovey Tracey, Devonshire, England. It is of geological age of the oolite, and not of the true coal era..

Caking Coal :: Caking coal () See Coal.

Canal Coal :: Canal coal () See Cannel coal.

Candle Coal :: Candle coal () See Cannel coal.

Cannel Coal :: Cannel coal () A kind of mineral coal of a black color, sufficiently hard and solid to be cut and polished. It burns readily, with a clear, yellow flame, and on this account has been used as a substitute for candles..

Charcoal :: Charcoal (v. t.) Impure carbon prepared from vegetable or animal substances; esp., coal made by charring wood in a kiln, retort, etc., from which air is excluded. It is used for fuel and in various mechanical, artistic, and chemical processes..

Charcoal :: Charcoal (v. t.) Finely prepared charcoal in small sticks, used as a drawing implement..

Coal :: Coal (n.) A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal..

Coal :: Coal (n.) A black, or brownish black, solid, combustible substance, dug from beds or veins in the earth to be used for fuel, and consisting, like charcoal, mainly of carbon, but more compact, and often affording, when heated, a large amount of volatile matter..

Coal :: Coal (v. t.) To burn to charcoal; to char.

Coal :: Coal (v. t.) To mark or delineate with charcoal.

Coal :: Coal (v. t.) To supply with coal; as, to coal a steamer..

Coal :: Coal (v. i.) To take in coal; as, the steamer coaled at Southampton..

Coal Tar :: Coal tar () A thick, black, tarry liquid, obtained by the distillation of bituminous coal in the manufacture of illuminating gas; used for making printer's ink, black varnish, etc. It is a complex mixture from which many substances have been obtained, especially hydrocarbons of the benzene or aromatic series..

Coal Works :: Coal works () A place where coal is dug, including the machinery for raising the coal..

Coal-black :: Coal-black (a.) As black as coal; jet black; very black.

Coal-meter :: Coal-meter (n.) A licensed or official coal measurer in London. See Meter.

Coal-whipper :: Coal-whipper (n.) One who raises coal out of the hold of a ship.

Coaled :: Coaled (imp. & p. p.) of Coa.

Coalery :: Coalery (n.) See Colliery.

Coalesce :: Coalesce (n.) To grow together; to unite by growth into one body; as, the parts separated by a wound coalesce..

Coalesce :: Coalesce (n.) To unite in one body or product; to combine into one body or community; as, vapors coalesce..

Coalesced :: Coalesced (imp. & p. p.) of Coalesc.

Coalescence :: Coalescence (n.) The act or state of growing together, as similar parts; the act of uniting by natural affinity or attraction; the state of being united; union; concretion..

Coalescent :: Coalescent (a.) Growing together; cohering, as in the organic cohesion of similar parts; uniting..

Coalescing :: Coalescing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coalesc.

Coalfish :: Coalfish (n.) The pollock; -- called also, coalsey, colemie, colmey, coal whiting, etc. See Pollock..

Coalfish :: Coalfish (n.) The beshow or candlefish of Alaska.

Coalfish :: Coalfish (n.) The cobia.

Coalgoose :: Coalgoose (n.) The cormorant; -- so called from its black color.

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