charcoal : Idioms & Phrases

• noun powdered or granular carbon used for purifying by adsorption; given orally (as a slurry) it is an antidote for some kinds of poisons
  activated carbon.
  

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• noun black substance containing char in the form of carbonized bone; used as a black pigment
  bone char; animal black; bone black.
  

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• 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.

Webster 1913

• the black pigment, consisting of burnt ivory, bone, cock, peach stones, and other substances.

Webster 1913

• noun a worker whose job is to make charcoal
  
• noun a stove that burns charcoal as fuel
  

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• (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.

Webster 1913

• noun a very dark grey color
  charcoal; oxford grey; charcoal gray; oxford gray.
  

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• noun a very dark grey color
  charcoal; oxford grey; charcoal gray; oxford gray.
  

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• a carbon pencil prepared for use un an electric light apparatus.

Webster 1913

• adjective satellite of a very dark grey
  charcoal; charcoal-gray.
  

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• adjective satellite of a very dark grey
  charcoal; charcoal-gray.
  

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• a term applied to silky fibrous layers of charcoal, interlaminated in beds of ordinary bituminous coal; known to miners as mother of coal.

Webster 1913