Charcoal

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Charcoal \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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Fine Arts) Finely prepared charcoal in small sticks, used
        as a drawing implement.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     {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.
        [1913 Webster] charcoal-gray

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  charcoal
       adj : very dark gray [syn: {charcoal-gray}, {charcoal-grey}]
       n 1: a carbonaceous material obtained by heating wood or other
            organic matter in the absence of air [syn: {wood coal}]
       2: a stick of black carbon material used for drawing [syn: {fusain}]
       3: a very dark gray color [syn: {charcoal gray}, {charcoal grey},
           {oxford gray}, {oxford grey}]
       4: a drawing made with charcoal
       v : draw, trace, or represent with charcoal

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  138 Moby Thesaurus words for "charcoal":
     air brush, alcohol, art paper, ash, ashes, benzine,
     black and white, blackening, blacking, blackwash, brand, briquette,
     brouillon, brush, burnable, burnt cork, butane, calx,
     camera lucida, camera obscura, canvas, carbon, carbon black,
     cartoon, chalk, charcoal drawing, chiaroscuro, cinder, clinker,
     coal, coke, combustible, coom, crayon, crow, delineation, design,
     diagram, doodle, dope, draft, drafting, drawing, drawing paper,
     drawing pencil, drier, dross, easel, ebauche, ebon, ebony,
     esquisse, ethane, ethanol, fireball, firing, fixative, flammable,
     flammable material, fuel, fuel additive, fuel dope, fume, gas,
     gas black, gas carbon, gasoline, graph, ground, heptane, hexane,
     inflammable, inflammable material, ink, isooctane, jet, jet fuel,
     kerosene, lampblack, lava, lay figure, line drawing, maulstick,
     medium, methane, methanol, natural gas, night, octane, oil, paint,
     paintbrush, palette, palette knife, paraffin, pastel, peat,
     pen-and-ink, pencil, pencil drawing, pentane, pigments, pitch,
     propane, propellant, raven, reek, rocket fuel, rough copy,
     rough draft, rough outline, scoria, scratchboard, siccative,
     silhouette, silver-print drawing, sinopia, sketch, sketchbook,
     sketching, sketchpad, slag, sloe, smoke, smudge, smut, soot,
     spatula, spray gun, stove black, study, stump, sullage, tar,
     tracing, turf, varnish, vignette