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Webster 1913 Edition
Charcoal
1.
Impure carbon prepared from vegetable or animal substances; esp., coal made by charring wood in a kiln, retort, etc., from which air is excluded. It is used for fuel and in various mechanical, artistic, and chemical processes.
2.
(Fine Arts)
Finely prepared charcoal in small sticks, used as a drawing implement.
Animal charcoal
, a fine charcoal prepared by calcining bones in a closed vessel; – used as a filtering agent in sugar refining, and as an absorbent and disinfectant.
– Charcoal blacks
, the black pigment, consisting of burnt ivory, bone, cock, peach stones, and other substances.
– Charcoal drawing
(Fine Arts)
, a drawing made with charcoal. See
– Charcoal
, 2. Until within a few years this material has been used almost exclusively for preliminary outline, etc., but at present many finished drawings are made with it. Charcoal point
, a carbon pencil prepared for use in an electric light apparatus.
– Mineral charcoal
, a term applied to silky fibrous layers of charcoal, interlaminated in beds of ordinary bituminous coal; – known to miners as mother of coal.
Webster 1828 Edition
Charcoal
CHARCOAL
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Definition 2024
charcoal
charcoal
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Charcoal burning
Artists' charcoal (charcoal sticks, used for drawing)
A charcoal (charcoal drawing) of a young girl. The drawing has been charcoaled with a charcoal stick.
Noun
charcoal (usually uncountable, plural charcoals)
- (uncountable) Impure carbon obtained by destructive distillation of wood or other organic matter, that is to say, heating it in the absence of oxygen.
- 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
- But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.
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- (countable) A stick of black carbon material used for drawing.
- 1879, Th Du Moncel, The Telephone, the Microphone and the Phonograph, page 166:
- He takes the prepared charcoal used by artists, brings it to a white heat, and suddenly plunges it in a bath of mercury, of which the globules instantly penetrate the pores of charcoal, and may be said to metallize it.
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- (countable) A drawing made with charcoal.
- A very dark gray colour.
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charcoal colour:
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substance
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stick used for drawing
charcoal drawing
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colour
Adjective
charcoal (comparative more charcoal, superlative most charcoal)
- Of a dark gray colour.
- Made of charcoal.
- 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
- But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.
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colour
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Verb
charcoal (third-person singular simple present charcoals, present participle charcoaling, simple past and past participle charcoaled)