Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CO-AG-MEN-TA'TION, n.

Collection into a mass or united body; union; conjunction. [Little used.] – B. Jonson.

CO-AG-MENT'ED, a.

Congregated; heaped together; united in one mass. [Little used.] Glanville.

CO-AG-U-LA-BIL'I-TY, n.

The capacity of being coagulated. – Ure.

CO-AG'U-LA-BLE, a. [See Coagulate.]

That may be concreted; capable of congealing or changing from a liquid to an inspissated state; as, coagulable lymph. – Boyle.

CO-AG'U-LATE, v.i.

To curdle or congeal; to turn from a fluid into a consistent state, or fixed substance; to thicken. – Bacon. Boyle.

CO-AG'U-LATE, v.t. [L. coagulo; Fr. coaguler; It. coagulare; Sp. coagular. Usually considered as from cogo, con and ago. But probably the last component part of the word is the W. ceulaw; to curdle, the root of gelid and congeal.]

To concrete; to curdle; to congeal; to change from a fluid into a fixed substance, or solid mass; as, to coagulate blood; rennet coagulates milk. This word is generally applied to the change of fluids into substances, like curd or butter, of a moderate consistence, but not hard or impenetrable. – Bacon. Arbuthnot.

CO-AG'U-LA-TED, pp.

Concreted; curdled.

CO-AG'U-LA-TING, ppr.

Curdling; congealing.

CO-AG-U-LA'TION, n.

The act of changing from a fluid to a fixed state; concretion; the state of being coagulated; the body formed by coagulating. – Arbuthnot.

CO-AG'U-LA-TIVE, a.

That has the power to cause concretion. – Boyle.

CO-AG'U-LA-TOR, n.

That which causes coagulation. – Arbuthnot.

CO-AG'U-LUM, n.

Rennet; curd; the clot of blood, separated by cold, acid, &c. – Encyc. Coxe.

CO-A'I-TI, n.

A species of monkey in South America.

COAK, n.

See COKE.

COAL, n. [Sax. col or coll; G. kohle; D. kool; Dan. kul; Sw. kol; Ir. gual; Corn. kolan; Russ. ugol. Qu. Heb. גחל. It is from the sense of glowing, raging, for in Dan. kuler signifies to blow strong.]

1. A piece of wood, or other combustible substance, ignited, burning, or charred. When burning or ignited, it is called a live coal, or burning coal, or coal of fire. When the fire is extinct, it is called charcoal.
2. In the language of chimists, any substance containing oil, which has been exposed to a fire in a close vessel, so that its volatile matter is expelled, and it can sustain a red heat without further decomposition. – Encyc.
3. In mineralogy, a solid, opake, inflammable substance, found in the earth, and by way of distinction called fossil coal. It is divided by recent mineralogists into three species, anthracite or glance coal, black or bituminous coal, and brown coal or lignite; under which are included many varieties, such as cannel coal, Bovey coal, jet, &c.

COAL, v.t.

1. To burn to coal, or charcoal; to char. – Carew. Bacon.
2. To mark or delineate with charcoal. – Camden. [As a verb, this word is little used.]

COAL'-BASK-ET, n.

A large basket for carrying or measuring charcoal.

COAL'-BLACK, a.

Black as a coal; very black. – Dryden.

COAL'-BOX, n.

A box to carry coal to the fire. – Swift.

COAL'-CART, n.

A cart employed in conveying coal.

COAL'-ER-Y, n.

A coal-mine, coal-pit, or place where coals are dug, with the engines and machinery used in discharging the water and rinsing the coal. – Encyc.

CO-AL-ESCE', v.i. [coaless'; L. coalesco, from coaleo; con and alesco, from aleo or oleo, to grow.]

1. To grow together; to unite, as separate bodies, or separate parts, into one body, as separate bones in an infant, or the fingers or toes. – Encyc.
2. To unite and adhere in one body or mass, by spontaneous approximation or attraction; as, vapors coalesce. – Newton.
3. To unite in society, in a more general sense. The Jews were incapable of coalescing with other nations. – Campbell, Prelim. Dissert.

CO-A-LES'CENCE, n.

The act of growing together; the act of uniting by natural affinity or attraction; the state of being united; union; concretion.

CO-A-LES'CING, ppr.

Growing or coming together; uniting in a body or mass; uniting and adhering together.

COAL'-EY-ED, a.

Having eyes as black as a coal.