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Drop :: Drop (n.) A machine for lowering heavy weights, as packages, coal wagons, etc., to a ship's deck..

Broil :: Broil (v. t.) To cook by direct exposure to heat over a fire, esp. upon a gridiron over coals..

Laramie Group :: Laramie group () An extensive series of strata, principally developed in the Rocky Mountain region, as in the Laramie Mountains, and formerly supposed to be of the Tertiary age, but now generally regarded as Cretaceous, or of intermediate and transitional character. It contains beds of lignite, often valuable for coal, and is hence also called the lignitic group. See Chart of Geology..

Black :: Black (a.) Destitute of light, or incapable of reflecting it; of the color of soot or coal; of the darkest or a very dark color, the opposite of white; characterized by such a color; as, black cloth; black hair or eyes..

Pollack :: Pollack (n.) The American pollock; the coalfish.

Coal-black :: Coal-black (a.) As black as coal; jet black; very black.

Coaltit :: Coaltit (n.) A small European titmouse (Parus ater), so named from its black color; -- called also coalmouse and colemouse..

Hexylene :: Hexylene (n.) A colorless, liquid hydrocarbon, C6H12, of the ethylene series, produced artificially, and found as a natural product of distillation of certain coals; also, any one several isomers of hexylene proper. Called also hexene..

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

Damp :: Damp (n.) A gaseous product, formed in coal mines, old wells, pints, etc..

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.

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

Hod :: Hod (n.) A utensil for holding coal; a coal scuttle.

Heugh :: Heugh (n.) A shaft in a coal pit; a hollow in a quarry.

Anthraconite :: Anthraconite (n.) A coal-black marble, usually emitting a fetid smell when rubbed; -- called also stinkstone and swinestone..

Phenanthrene :: Phenanthrene (n.) A complex hydrocarbon, C14H10, found in coal tar, and obtained as a white crystalline substance with a bluish fluorescence..

Rib :: Rib (n.) Solid coal on the side of a gallery; solid ore in a vein.

Pyrrol :: Pyrrol (n.) A nitrogenous base found in coal tar, bone oil, and other distillates of organic substances, and also produced synthetically as a colorless liquid, C4H5N, having on odor like that of chloroform. It is the nucleus and origin of a large number of derivatives. So called because it colors a splinter of wood moistened with hydrochloric acid a deep red..

Xylene :: Xylene (n.) Any of a group of three metameric hydrocarbons of the aromatic series, found in coal and wood tar, and so named because found in crude wood spirit. They are colorless, oily, inflammable liquids, C6H4.(CH3)2, being dimethyl benzenes, and are called respectively orthoxylene, metaxylene, and paraxylene. Called also xylol..

Conglobe :: Conglobe (v. i.) To collect, unite, or coalesce in a round mass..

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