1. A black, porous, carbonaceous material, 85 to 98 percent carbon, produced by the destructive distillation of wood and used as a fuel, filter, and absorbent.
2. A drawing pencil or crayon made from this material.
3. A drawing executed with such a pencil or crayon.
4. A dark grayish brown to black or dark purplish gray.
5. to draw, write, or blacken with a black, carbonaceous material.
6. to charbroil.

1. impure carbon obtained by destructive distillation of wood or other organic matter, that is to say, heating it in the absence of oxygen.
2. A stick of black carbon material used for drawing.
3. A drawing made with charcoal.
4. A very dark gray colour.
5. of a dark gray colour.
6. made of charcoal.
7. to draw with charcoal.
8. to cook over charcoal.

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. finely prepared charcoal in small sticks, used as a drawing implement.

1. to blacken, write, or draw with charcoal; execute in charcoal: as, to charcoal one's eyebrows.
2. to suffocate with the fumes of charcoal.
3. coal made by subjecting wood to a process of smothered combustion; more generally, the carbonaceous residue of vegetable, animal, or combustible mineral substances which have been subjected to smothered combustion.
4. A pencil of charcoal, used by artists.

1. of a very dark grey
2. a drawing made with a stick of black carbon material
3. a carbonaceous material obtained by heating wood or other organic matter in the absence of air
4. a very dark grey color
5. a stick of black carbon material used for drawing
6. draw, trace, or represent with charcoal