Alum shale
() A variety of shale or clay slate, containing iron pyrites, the decomposition of which leads to the formation of alum, which often effloresces on the rock. |
Bone
(n.) The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine |
Bone
(n.) One of the pieces or parts of an animal skeleton |
Bone
(n.) Anything made of bone, as a bobbin for weaving bone lace. |
Bone
(n.) Two or four pieces of bone held between the fingers and struck together to make a kind of music. |
Bone
(n.) Dice. |
Bone
(n.) Whalebone |
Bone
(n.) Fig.: The framework of anything. |
Bone
(v. t.) To withdraw bones from the flesh of, as in cookery. |
Bone
(v. t.) To put whalebone into |
Bone
(v. t.) To fertilize with bone. |
Bone
(v. t.) To steal |
Bone
(v. t.) To sight along an object or set of objects, to see if it or they be level or in line, as in carpentry, masonry, and surveying. |
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. |
Cannon bone
() See Canon Bone. |
Canon bone
() The shank bone, or great bone above the fetlock, in the fore and hind legs of the horse and allied animals, corresponding to the middle metacarpal or metatarsal bone of most mammals. See Horse. |
Carbonaceous
(a.) Pertaining to, containing, or composed of, carbon. |
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. |
Collar bone
() The clavicle. |
Cuttle bone
() The shell or bone of cuttlefishes, used for various purposes, as for making polishing powder, etc. |
Day-coal
(n.) The upper stratum of coal, as nearest the light or surface. |
Kennel coal
() See Cannel coal. |
Rewel bone
() An obsolete phrase of disputed meaning, -- perhaps, smooth or polished bone. |
Rowel bone
() See rewel bone. |
Ruell bone
() See rewel bone. |
Sea coal
() Coal brought by sea |
Shale
(n.) A shell or husk |
Shale
(n.) A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure. |
Shale
(v. t.) To take off the shell or coat of |