Definition of coal

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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..

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Clinker :: Clinker (n.) Scoria or vitrified incombustible matter, formed in a grate or furnace where anthracite coal in used; vitrified or burnt matter ejected from a volcano; slag..
Put :: Put (v. t.) To convey coal in the mine, as from the working to the tramway..
Win :: Win (a.) To extract, as ore or coal..
Sigillaria :: Sigillaria (n.) A genus of fossil trees principally found in the coal formation; -- so named from the seallike leaf scars in vertical rows on the surface.
Union :: Union (n.) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one, or the state of being united or joined; junction; coalition; combination..
Colly :: Colly (v. t.) To render black or dark, as of with coal smut; to begrime..
Dresser :: Dresser (n.) A kind of pick for shaping large coal.
Adelphous :: Adelphous (a.) Having coalescent or clustered filaments; -- said of stamens; as, adelphous stamens. Usually in composition; as, monadelphous..
Bin :: Bin (n.) A box, frame, crib, or inclosed place, used as a receptacle for any commodity; as, a corn bin; a wine bin; a coal bin..
Concrescence :: Concrescence (n.) Coalescence of particles; growth; increase by the addition of particles.
Rib :: Rib (n.) An elongated pillar of ore or coal left as a support.
Breeze :: Breeze (n.) Refuse coal, coal ashes, and cinders, used in the burning of bricks..
Heaver :: Heaver (n.) One who, or that which, heaves or lifts; a laborer employed on docks in handling freight; as, a coal heaver..
Concrete :: Concrete (n.) A compound or mass formed by concretion, spontaneous union, or coalescence of separate particles of matter in one body..
Stigmata :: Stigmaria (n.) The fossil root stem of a coal plant of the genus Sigillaria.
Incoalescence :: Incoalescence (n.) The state of not coalescing.
Ribbed :: Ribbed (a.) Intercalated with slate; -- said of a seam of coal.
Parvoline :: Parvoline (n.) A liquid base, C/H/N, of the pyridine group, found in coal tar; also, any one of the series of isometric substances of which it is the type..
Phlorone :: Phlorone (n.) A yellow crystalline substance having a peculiar unpleasant odor, resembling the quinones, and obtained from beechwood tar and coal tar, as also by the oxidation of xylidine; -- called also xyloquinone..
Saithe :: Saithe (n.) The pollock, or coalfish; -- called also sillock..
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