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. |
Clean
(superl.) Free from dirt or filth |
Clean
(superl.) Free from that which is useless or injurious |
Clean
(superl.) Free from awkwardness |
Clean
(superl.) Free from errors and vulgarisms |
Clean
(superl.) Free from restraint or neglect |
Clean
(superl.) Free from moral defilement |
Clean
(superl.) Free from ceremonial defilement. |
Clean
(superl.) Free from that which is corrupting to the morals |
Clean
(superl.) Well-proportioned |
Clean
(adv.) Without limitation or remainder |
Clean
(adv.) Without miscarriage |
Clean
(a.) To render clean |
Clean-cut
(a.) See Clear-cut. |
Clean-limbed
(a.) With well-proportioned, unblemished limbs |
Clean-timbered
(a.) Well-proportioned |
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. |
Sea coal
() Coal brought by sea |
Super-
() A prefix signifying above, over, beyond, and hence often denoting in a superior position, in excess, over and above, in addition, exceedingly |
Super-
() A prefix formerly much used to denote that the ingredient to the name of which it was prefixed was present in a large, or unusually large, proportion as compared with the other ingredients |
Super
(n.) A contraction of Supernumerary, in sense 2. |
clean and jerk
clean | a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then jerked overhead |
| clean bomb | an atom bomb leaving little or no radioactive contamination |
clean room
white room | a room that is virtually free of dust or bacteria, used in laboratory work and in assembly or repair of precision equipment |
| 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 |
K
jet super acid
special K
honey oil
green
cat valium
super C | street names for ketamine |
| laminar flow clean room | a clean room free of all extraneous particles, used in fabricating microprocessors |
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 |
| clean bill of health | an assurance that someone is healthy or something is in good condition, the doctor gave him a clean bill of health |
| 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 |
| super heavyweight | an amateur boxer who weighs more thanpounds |
| superintendent super | a caretaker for an apartment house, represents the owner as janitor and rent collector |
anthracosis
black lung
black lung disease
coal miner's lung | lung disease caused by inhaling coal dust |
fresh start
clean slate
tabula rasa | an opportunity to start over without prejudice |
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 |
cleanse
clean | clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing, clean up before you see your grandparents, clean your fingernails before dinner |
| clean up | make oneself clean, presentable or neat, Clean up before you go to the party |
| clean pick | remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits, Clean the turkey |
| clean | remove shells or husks from, clean grain before milling it |
scavenge
clean | remove unwanted substances from |
tidy
tidy up
clean up neaten
straighten
straighten out
square away | put (things or places) in order, Tidy up your room! |
clean out
clear out | empty completely, We cleaned out all the drawers |
make a clean breast of
own up
fess up | admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error, the writer of the anonymous letter owned up after they identified his handwriting |
vacuum
vacuum-clean
hoover | clean with a vacuum cleaner, vacuum the carpets |
steam
steam clean | clean by means of steaming, steam-clean the upholstered sofa |
| clean | remove while making clean, Clean the spots off the rug |
clean
make clean | make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from, Clean the stove!, The dentist cleaned my teeth |
houseclean
clean house
clean | clean and tidy up the house, She housecleans every week |
| spring-clean | thoroughly clean the entire house, often done only once a year, she started spring-cleaning on April |
| dry clean | clean with chemical agents |
| coal | take in coal, The big ship coaled |