Bovey coal () A kind of mineral coal, or brown lignite, burning with a weak flame, and generally a disagreeable odor |
Brown (superl.) Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow. |
Brown (n.) A dark color inclining to red or yellow, resulting from the mixture of red and black, or of red, black, and yellow |
Brown (v. t.) To make brown or dusky. |
Brown (v. t.) To make brown by scorching slightly |
Brown (v. t.) To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface. |
Brown (v. i.) To become brown. |
Brown bill () A bill or halberd of the 16th and 17th centuries. See 4th Bill. |
Brown thrush () A common American singing bird (Harporhynchus rufus), allied to the mocking bird |
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. |
Coke (n.) Mineral coal charred, or depriver of its bitumen, sulphur, or other volatile matter by roasting in a kiln or oven, or by distillation, as in gas works. It is lagerly used where / smokeless fire is required. |
Coke (v. t.) To convert into coke. |
Day-coal (n.) The upper stratum of coal, as nearest the light or surface. |
Hair-brown (a.) Of a clear tint of brown, resembling brown human hair. It is composed of equal proportions of red and green. |
Kennel coal () See Cannel coal. |
Nut-brown (a.) Brown as a nut long kept and dried. |
Sea coal () Coal brought by sea |
Seal-brown (a.) Of a rich dark brown color, like the fur of the fur seal after it is dyed. |
Whity-brown (a.) Of a color between white and brown. |