Ăn’thra-cīte, n.

n. [Lat. anthracites, a kind of blood-stone; anthracitis, a kind of carbuncle, the coal-carbuncle; Gr. ἀνθρακίτης, from ἀνθρακίτις, like coals, from ἄνθραξ, gen. -ακος, coal or charcoal. [See ANTHRAX.] A hard, compact variety of mineral coal, of high luster, differing from bituminous coal in containing little or no bitumen, in consequence of which it burns without flame. The purer specimens consist wholly of carbon. It is also called glance coal and blind coal.