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Burn :: Burn (v. t.) To perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to destroy or change some property or properties of, by exposure to fire or heat in due degree for obtaining a desired residuum, product, or effect; to bake; as, to burn clay in making bricks or pottery; to burn wood so as to produce charcoal; to burn limestone for the lime..

Sea Coal :: Sea coal () Coal brought by sea; -- a name by which mineral coal was formerly designated in the south of England, in distinction from charcoal, which was brought by land..

Poudrette :: Poudrette (n.) A manure made from night soil, dried and mixed with charcoal, gypsum, etc..

Fining :: Fining (n.) The process of fining or refining; clarification; also (Metal.), the conversion of cast iron into suitable for puddling, in a hearth or charcoal fire..

Charcoal :: Charcoal (v. t.) Impure carbon prepared from vegetable or animal substances; esp., coal made by charring wood in a kiln, retort, etc., from which air is excluded. It is used for fuel and in various mechanical, artistic, and chemical processes..

Coalpit :: Coalpit (n.) A place where charcoal is made.

Chark :: Chark (n.) Charcoal; a cinder.

Abaiser :: Abaiser (n.) Ivory black or animal charcoal.

Charry :: Charry (a.) Pertaining to charcoal, or partaking of its qualities..

Fusain :: Fusain (n.) A drawing made with it. See Charcoal, n. 2, and Charcoal drawing, under Charcoal..

Aigremore :: Aigremore (n.) Charcoal prepared for making powder.

Filter :: Filter (n.) Any porous substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal, through which water or other liquid may passed to cleanse it from the solid or impure matter held in suspension; a chamber or device containing such substance; a strainer; also, a similar device for purifying air..

Xylanthrax :: Xylanthrax (n.) Wood coal, or charcoal; -- so called in distinction from mineral coal..

Coal :: Coal (v. t.) To mark or delineate with charcoal.

Braize :: Braize (n.) Charcoal powder; breeze.

Facing :: Facing (n.) A powdered substance, as charcoal, bituminous coal, ect., applied to the face of a mold, or mixed with the sand that forms it, to give a fine smooth surface to the casting..

Fusain :: Fusain (n.) Fine charcoal of willow wood, used as a drawing implement..

Cementation :: Cementation (n.) A process which consists in surrounding a solid body with the powder of other substances, and heating the whole to a degree not sufficient to cause fusion, the physical properties of the body being changed by chemical combination with powder; thus iron becomes steel by cementation with charcoal, and green glass becomes porcelain by cementation with sand..

Charcoal :: Charcoal (v. t.) Finely prepared charcoal in small sticks, used as a drawing implement..

Burn :: Burn (v. t.) To make or produce, as an effect or result, by the application of fire or heat; as, to burn a hole; to burn charcoal; to burn letters into a block..

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