'Animal charcoal' definitions:

Definition of 'animal charcoal'

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noun
Black substance containing char in the form of carbonized bone; used as a black pigment [syn: bone black, bone char, animal black, animal charcoal]

Definition of 'Animal charcoal'

From: 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

Definition of 'animal charcoal'

From: GCIDE
  • Bone \Bone\ (b[=o]n; 110), n. [OE. bon, ban, AS. b[=a]n; akin to Icel. bein, Sw. ben, Dan. & D. been, G. bein bone, leg; cf. Icel. beinn straight.]
  • 1. (Anat.) The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcium carbonate, calcium phosphate, and gelatine; as, blood and bone. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: Even in the hardest parts of bone there are many minute cavities containing living matter and connected by minute canals, some of which connect with larger canals through which blood vessels ramify. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. One of the pieces or parts of an animal skeleton; as, a rib or a thigh bone; a bone of the arm or leg; also, any fragment of bony substance. (pl.) The frame or skeleton of the body. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Anything made of bone, as a bobbin for weaving bone lace. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. pl. Two or four pieces of bone held between the fingers and struck together to make a kind of music. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. pl. Dice. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. Whalebone; hence, a piece of whalebone or of steel for a corset. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. Fig.: The framework of anything. [1913 Webster]
  • A bone of contention, a subject of contention or dispute.
  • A bone to pick, something to investigate, or to busy one's self about; a dispute to be settled (with some one).
  • Bone ash, the residue from calcined bones; -- used for making cupels, and for cleaning jewelry.
  • Bone black (Chem.), the black, carbonaceous substance into which bones are converted by calcination in close vessels; -- called also animal charcoal. It is used as a decolorizing material in filtering sirups, extracts, etc., and as a black pigment. See Ivory black, under Black.
  • Bone cave, a cave in which are found bones of extinct or recent animals, mingled sometimes with the works and bones of man. --Am. Cyc.
  • Bone dust, ground or pulverized bones, used as a fertilizer.
  • Bone earth (Chem.), the earthy residuum after the calcination of bone, consisting chiefly of phosphate of calcium.
  • Bone lace, a lace made of linen thread, so called because woven with bobbins of bone.
  • Bone oil, an oil obtained by heating bones (as in the manufacture of bone black), and remarkable for containing the nitrogenous bases, pyridine and quinoline, and their derivatives; -- also called Dippel's oil.
  • Bone setter. Same as Bonesetter. See in the Vocabulary.
  • Bone shark (Zool.), the basking shark.
  • Bone spavin. See under Spavin.
  • Bone turquoise, fossil bone or tooth of a delicate blue color, sometimes used as an imitation of true turquoise.
  • Bone whale (Zool.), a right whale.
  • To be upon the bones of, to attack. [Obs.]
  • To make no bones, to make no scruple; not to hesitate. [Low]
  • To pick a bone with, to quarrel with, as dogs quarrel over a bone; to settle a disagreement. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]