Definition of Charcaal
Char"coal` (?), n. [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) 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's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- impure carbon obtained by heating wood or other organic matter in the absence of oxygen.
- a stick of black carbon material used for drawing.
- a drawing made with charcoal.
- (colour) a very dark gray colour.
charcoal colour:
- (colour) of a dark gray colour.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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