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ion of coal tar. Its chief use is in the artificial production of alizarin. [Written also anthracin.]

ch distills over from coal tar at a temperature above 270º. It is the principal source of anthracene.

Of or relating to anthrax; as, anthracic blood.

Yielding anthracite; as, anthraciferous strata.

A hard, compact variety of mineral coal, of high luster, differing from bituminous coal in containing little or no bitumen, in consequence of which it burns with a nearly non luminous flame. The purer specimens consist almost wholly of carbon. Also called glance coal and blind coal.

Of, pertaining to, or like, anthracite; as, anthracitic formations.

pecies of the series Melanconiales, attacking the bean, grape, melon, cotton, and other plants. In the case of the grape, brown concave spots are formed on the stem and fruit, and the disease is called bird's-eye rot.

Resembling anthrax in action; of the nature of anthrax; as, an anthracoid microbe.

Divination by inspecting a burning coal.

An instrument for measuring the amount of carbonic acid in a mixture.

Of or pertaining to an anthracometer.

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

A chronic lung disease, common among coal miners, due to the inhalation of coal dust; -- called also collier's lung and miner's phthisis.

rbon, C6H4.C2O2.C6H4, subliming in shining yellow needles. It is obtained by oxidation of anthracene.

A malignant pustule.

A fluid vaccine obtained by growing a bacterium (Bacterium anthracis) in beef broth. It is used to immunize animals, esp. cattle.

A genus of small beetles, several of which, in the larval state, are very destructive to woolen goods, fur, etc. The common "museum pest" is A. varius; the carpet beetle is A. scrophulariæ. The larvæ are commonly confounded with moths.

Like or related to man; human. [R.] Owen.

The group that includes man only.

Assuming man as the center or ultimate end; -- applied to theories of the universe or of any part of it, as the solar system. Draper.