Algal (a.) Pertaining to, or like, algae. |
Bovey coal () A kind of mineral coal, or brown lignite, burning with a weak flame, and generally a disagreeable odor |
Caking coal () See Coal. |
Canal coal () See Cannel coal. |
Candle coal () See 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. |
Coal (n.) A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance |
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 (v. t.) To burn to charcoal |
Coal (v. t.) To mark or delineate with charcoal. |
Coal (v. t.) To supply with coal |
Coal (v. i.) To take in coal |
Coal-black (a.) As black as coal |
Coal-meter (n.) A licensed or official coal measurer in London. See Meter. |
Coal tar () A thick, black, tarry liquid, obtained by the distillation of bituminous coal in the manufacture of illuminating gas |
Coal-whipper (n.) One who raises coal out of the hold of a ship. |
Coal works () A place where coal is dug, including the machinery for raising the coal. |
Day-coal (n.) The upper stratum of coal, as nearest the light or surface. |
Kennel coal () See Cannel coal. |
Parrot (n.) In a general sense, any bird of the order Psittaci. |
Parrot (n.) Any species of Psittacus, Chrysotis, Pionus, and other genera of the family Psittacidae, as distinguished from the parrakeets, macaws, and lories. They have a short rounded or even tail, and often a naked space on the cheeks. The gray parrot, or jako (P. erithacus) of Africa (see Jako), and the species of Amazon, or green, parrots (Chrysotis) of America, are examples. Many species, as cage birds, readily learn to imitate sounds, and to repeat words and phrases. |
Parrot (v. t.) To repeat by rote, as a parrot. |
Parrot (v. i.) To chatter like a parrot. |
Parrot's-bill (n.) The glory pea. See under Glory. |
Sea coal () Coal brought by sea |
Vaza parrot () Any one of several species of parrots of the genus Coracopsis, native of Madagascar |
parrot | usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic sounds |
poll poll parrot | a tame parrot |
cockateel cockatiel cockatoo parrot Nymphicus hollandicus | small grey Australian parrot with a yellow crested head |
coal car | freight car with fixed sides and no roof, for transporting coal |
coal chute | a chute for coal |
coal house | a shed for storing coal |
coal mine coalpit | a mine where coal is dug from the ground |
coal shovel | a hand shovel for shoveling coal |
fire tongs coal tongs | tongs for taking hold of burning coals |
scuttle coal scuttle | container for coal, shaped to permit pouring the coal onto the fire |
coal black ebony jet black pitch black sable soot black | a very dark black |
coal industry | the producers of coal considered collectively |
coal seam | a seam of coal |
ember coal | a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering |
coal miner collier pitman | someone who works in a coal mine |
parrot | a copycat who does not understand the words or acts being imitated |
parrot's beak parrot's bill Clianthus puniceus | evergreen shrub with scarlet to white clawlike or beaklike flowers, New Zealand |
psittacosis parrot fever ornithosis | an atypical pneumonia caused by a rickettsia microorganism and transmitted to humans from infected birds |
anthracosis black lung black lung disease coal miner's lung | lung disease caused by inhaling coal dust |
psittacosis parrot disease | infectious disease of birds |
charcoal wood coal | a carbonaceous material obtained by heating wood or other organic matter in the absence of air |
coal gas | gaseous mixture produced by distillation of bituminous coal and used for heating and lighting |
kerosene kerosine lamp oil coal oil | a flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters |
cannel coal | a bituminous coal that burns with a luminous flame |
coal | fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period |
anthracite anthracite coal hard coal | a hard natural coal that burns slowly and gives intense heat |
bituminous coal soft coal | rich in tarry hydrocarbons, burns readily with a smoky yellow flame |
lignite brown coal wood coal | intermediate between peat and bituminous coal |
sea coal | pulverized bituminous coal, used as a foundry facing |
steam coal | coal suitable for use under steam boilers |
creosote coal-tar creosote | a dark oily liquid obtained by distillation of coal tar, used as a preservative for wood |
coal tar | a tar formed from distillation of bituminous coal, coal tar can be further distilled to give various aromatic compounds |
parrot | repeat mindlessly, The students parroted the teacher's words |
coal | take in coal, The big ship coaled |
coal | supply with coal |
char coal | burn to charcoal, Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything |
coal-black jet jet-black pitchy sooty | of the blackest black, similar to the color of jet or coal |
coal-fired coal-burning | fueled by burning coal, a coal-fired ship |
algal | of or relating to alga |