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Coalesce :: Coalesce (n.) To unite in one body or product; to combine into one body or community; as, vapors coalesce..

Pica :: Pica (n.) A vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for food, as chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia..

Coalescent :: Coalescent (a.) Growing together; cohering, as in the organic cohesion of similar parts; uniting..

Stretcher :: Stretch (n.) Course; direction; as, the stretch of seams of coal..

Coalescing :: Coalescing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coalesc.

Slice :: Slice (v. t.) A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel..

Fault :: Fault (v. t.) To interrupt the continuity of (rock strata) by displacement along a plane of fracture; -- chiefly used in the p. p.; as, the coal beds are badly faulted..

Smoke :: Smoke (n.) The visible exhalation, vapor, or substance that escapes, or expelled, from a burning body, especially from burning vegetable matter, as wood, coal, peat, or the like..

Coalitioner :: Coalitioner (n.) A coalitionist.

Tub :: Tub (n.) A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft; -- so called by miners.

Underclay :: Underclay (n.) A stratum of clay lying beneath a coal bed, often containing the roots of coal plants, especially the Stigmaria..

Smutch :: Smutch (v. t.) To blacken with smoke, soot, or coal..

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..

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..

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..

Mine :: Mine (v. i.) A pit or excavation in the earth, from which metallic ores, precious stones, coal, or other mineral substances are taken by digging; -- distinguished from the pits from which stones for architectural purposes are taken, and which are called quarries..

Symphysotomy :: Symphysis (n.) The union or coalescence of bones; also, the place of union or coalescence; as, the symphysis of the lower jaw. Cf. Articulation..

Measure :: Measure (a.) Beds or strata; as, coal measures; lead measures..

Embody :: Embody (v. i.) To unite in a body, a mass, or a collection; to coalesce..

Eikosylene :: Eikosylene (n.) A liquid hydrocarbon, C20H38, of the acetylene series, obtained from brown coal..

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