CHARCOAL

charcoal, charcoal-grey, charcoal-gray

(adjective) of a very dark grey

charcoal, fusain

(noun) a stick of black carbon material used for drawing

charcoal

(noun) a drawing made with a stick of black carbon material

charcoal, charcoal grey, charcoal gray, oxford grey, oxford gray

(noun) a very dark grey color

charcoal, wood coal

(noun) a carbonaceous material obtained by heating wood or other organic matter in the absence of air

charcoal

(verb) draw, trace, or represent with charcoal

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

charcoal (usually uncountable, plural charcoals)

(countable, uncountable) Impure carbon obtained by destructive distillation of wood or other organic matter, that is to say, heating it in the absence of oxygen.

(countable) A stick of black carbon material used for drawing.

(countable) A drawing made with charcoal.

A very dark gray colour.

Adjective

charcoal (comparative more charcoal, superlative most charcoal)

Of a dark gray colour.

Made of charcoal.

Verb

charcoal (third-person singular simple present charcoals, present participle charcoaling, simple past and past participle charcoaled)

To draw with charcoal.

To cook over charcoal.

Source: Wiktionary


Char"coal`, n. Etym: [See Char, v. t., to burn or to reduce to coal, and Coal.]

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)

Definition: 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 un 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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