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its equivalent weight, and more than twice as much at Newcastle. Now used exlusively for coal and coke.

To reduce to coal or carbon by exposure to heat; to reduce to charcoal; to burn to a cinder.

Charcoal; a cinder. [Obs.] DeFoe.

Pertaining to charcoal, or partaking of its qualities.

One of the higher aromatic hydrocarbons of coal tar, allied to napthalene and anthracene. It is a white crystalline substance, C18H12, of strong blue fluorescence, but generally colored yellow by impurities.

Partly burned or vitrified coal, or other combustible, in which fire is extinct.

Adhesive; -- said of a roof in a mine to which coal clings.

A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal coking.

ch, or dig with a claw, or with the hand as a claw. "Clawing [in ash barrels] for bits of coal." W. D. Howells. To claw off (Naut.), to turn to windward and beat, to prevent falling on a lee shore.

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.

To coalesce or adhere; to unite in a mass. Move it sometimes with a broom, that the seeds clog not together. Evelyn.

To come together; to unite or coalesce, as the parts of a wound, or parts separated. What deep wounds ever closed without a scar Byron.

The compressed clay of coal strata. Brande & C.

A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, or stone.

Cob coal. See under Cob.

anic fish of large size (Elacate canada); the crabeater; -- called also bonito, cubbyyew, coalfish, and sergeant fish.

One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.

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 [Written also coak.] Gas coke, the coke formed in gas retorts, as distinguished from that made in ovens.

See Coalgoose.

ually pungent oily liquids, belonging to the pyridine series, and obtained from bone oil, coal tar, naphtha, and certain alkaloids.