Definition of coal

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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..

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Tram :: Tram (n.) A four-wheeled truck running on rails, and used in a mine, as for carrying coal or ore..
Cresol :: Cresol (n.) Any one of three metameric substances, CH3.C6H4.OH, homologous with and resembling phenol. They are obtained from coal tar and wood tar, and are colorless, oily liquids or solids. [Called also cresylic acid.].
Glede :: Glede (n.) A live coal.
Urry :: Urry (n.) A sort of blue or black clay lying near a vein of coal.
Day-coal :: Day-coal (n.) The upper stratum of coal, as nearest the light or surface..
Viridine :: Viridine (n.) A greenish, oily, nitrogenous hydrocarbon, C12H19N7, obtained from coal tar, and probably consisting of a mixture of several metameric compounds which are higher derivatives of the base pyridine..
Basin :: Basin (n.) An isolated or circumscribed formation, particularly where the strata dip inward, on all sides, toward a center; -- especially applied to the coal formations, called coal basins or coal fields..
Coalite :: Coalite (v. i.) To unite or coalesce.
Mellite :: Mellite (n.) A mineral of a honey color, found in brown coal, and partly the result of vegetable decomposition; honeystone. It is a mellitate of alumina..
Amalgamate :: Amalgamate (v. i.) To coalesce, as a result of growth; to combine into a uniform whole; to blend; as, two organs or parts amalgamate..
Coalery :: Coalery (n.) See Colliery.
Burn :: Burn (v. t.) To perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to destroy or change some property or properties of, by exposure to fire or heat in due degree for obtaining a desired residuum, product, or effect; to bake; as, to burn clay in making bricks or pottery; to burn wood so as to produce charcoal; to burn limestone for the lime..
Shovel :: Shovel (v. t.) An implement consisting of a broad scoop, or more or less hollow blade, with a handle, used for lifting and throwing earth, coal, grain, or other loose substances..
Measles :: Measles (n.) A contagious febrile disorder commencing with catarrhal symptoms, and marked by the appearance on the third day of an eruption of distinct red circular spots, which coalesce in a crescentic form, are slightly raised above the surface, and after the fourth day of the eruption gradually decline; rubeola..
Hod :: Hod (n.) A utensil for holding coal; a coal scuttle.
Bucket :: Bucket (n.) A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain, etc..
Coalfish :: Coalfish (n.) The cobia.
Concrete :: Concrete (v. i.) To unite or coalesce, as separate particles, into a mass or solid body..
Smutch :: Smutch (v. t.) To blacken with smoke, soot, or coal..
Piece :: Piece (v. i.) To unite by a coalescence of parts; to fit together; to join.
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