CPage 251
- English Word Coagulation Definition The change from a liquid to a thickened, curdlike, insoluble state, not by evaporation, but by some kind of chemical reaction; as, the spontaneous coagulation of freshly drawn blood; the coagulation of milk by rennet, or acid, and the coagulation of egg albumin by heat. Coagulation is generally the change of an albuminous body into an insoluble modification.
- English Word Coagulation Definition The substance or body formed by coagulation.
- English Word Coagulative Definition Having the power to cause coagulation; as, a coagulative agent.
- English Word Coagulator Definition That which causes coagulation.
- English Word Coagulatory Definition Serving to coagulate; produced by coagulation; as, coagulatory effects.
- English Word Coagulum Definition The thick, curdy precipitate formed by the coagulation of albuminous matter; any mass of coagulated matter, as a clot of blood.
- English Word Coaita Definition The native name of certain South American monkeys of the genus Ateles, esp. A. paniscus. The black-faced coaita is Ateles ater. See Illustration in Appendix.
- English Word Coak Definition See Coke, n.
- English Word Coak Definition A kind of tenon connecting the face of a scarfed timber with the face of another timber, or a dowel or pin of hard wood or iron uniting timbers.
- English Word Coak Definition A metallic bushing or strengthening piece in the center of a wooden block sheave.
- English Word Coak Definition To unite, as timbers, by means of tenons or dowels in the edges or faces.
- English Word Coal Definition A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal.
- English Word Coal Definition A black, or brownish black, solid, combustible substance, dug from beds or veins in the earth to be used for fuel, and consisting, like charcoal, mainly of carbon, but more compact, and often affording, when heated, a large amount of volatile matter.
- English Word Coal Definition To burn to charcoal; to char.
- English Word Coal Definition To mark or delineate with charcoal.
- English Word Coal Definition To supply with coal; as, to coal a steamer.
- English Word Coal Definition To take in coal; as, the steamer coaled at Southampton.
- English Word Coal tar Definition A thick, black, tarry liquid, obtained by the distillation of bituminous coal in the manufacture of illuminating gas; used for making printer's ink, black varnish, etc. It is a complex mixture from which many substances have been obtained, especially hydrocarbons of the benzene or aromatic series.
- English Word Coal works Definition A place where coal is dug, including the machinery for raising the coal.
- English Word Coal-black Definition As black as coal; jet black; very black.
- English Word Coal-meter Definition A licensed or official coal measurer in London. See Meter.
- English Word Coal-whipper Definition One who raises coal out of the hold of a ship.
- English Word Coaled Definition of Coal
- English Word Coalery Definition See Colliery.
- English Word Coalesce Definition To grow together; to unite by growth into one body; as, the parts separated by a wound coalesce.
- English Word Coalesce Definition To unite in one body or product; to combine into one body or community; as, vapors coalesce.
- English Word Coalesced Definition of Coalesce
- English Word Coalescence Definition The act or state of growing together, as similar parts; the act of uniting by natural affinity or attraction; the state of being united; union; concretion.
- English Word Coalescent Definition Growing together; cohering, as in the organic cohesion of similar parts; uniting.
- English Word Coalescing Definition of Coalesce