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and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal.

A thick, black, tarry liquid, obtained by the distillation of bituminous coal in the manufacture of illuminating gas; used for making printer's ink, black varnish, etc. It is a complex mixture from which many substances have been obtained, especially hydrocarbons of the benzene or aromatic series.

A place where coal is dug, including the machinery for raising the coal.

As black as coal; jet black; very black. Dryden.

A licensed or official coal measurer in London. See Meter. Simmonds.

One who raises coal out of the hold of a ship. [Eng.] Dickens.

See Colliery.

To grow together; to unite by growth into one body; as, the parts separated by a wound coalesce.

The act or state of growing together, as similar parts; the act of uniting by natural affinity or attraction; the state of being united; union; concretion.

Growing together; cohering, as in the organic cohesion of similar parts; uniting.

The pollock; -- called also, coalsey, colemie, colmey, coal whiting, etc. See Pollock.

The cormorant; -- so called from its black color.

To unite or coalesce. [Obs.] Let them continue to coalite. Bolingbroke.

The act of coalescing; union into a body or mass, as of separate bodies or parts; as, a coalition of atoms. Bentley.

A coalitionist.

One who joins or promotes a coalition; one who advocates coalition.

A small species of titmouse, with a black head; the coletit.

A pit where coal is dug.

Any one of the spaces in the Milky Way which are very black, owing to the nearly complete absence of stars; esp., the large space near the Southern Cross sometimes called the Black Magellanic Cloud.

Pertaining to, or resembling, coal; containing coal; of the nature of coal.