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. |
Sea coal
() Coal brought by sea |
Slaty
(a.) Resembling slate |
Splint
(v. t.) A piece split off |
Splint
(v. t.) A thin piece of wood, or other substance, used to keep in place, or protect, an injured part, especially a broken bone when set. |
Splint
(v. t.) A splint bone. |
Splint
(v. t.) A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence. |
Splint
(v. t.) One of the small plates of metal used in making splint armor. See Splint armor, below. |
Splint
(v. t.) Splint, or splent, coal. See Splent coal, under Splent. |
Splint
(v. t.) To split into splints, or thin, slender pieces |
Splint
(v. t.) To fasten or confine with splints, as a broken limb. See Splint, n., 2. |