Ăn’thrăx, n.
n. [Gr. ἄνθραξ, coal, charcoal, carbuncle, ruby; carbuncle, a kind of tumor; Pr. anthrac.]
Sense 1. (Med.) A carbuncle; a malignant boil, accompanied with gangrene of the cellular tissue.
Sense 2. Lithanthrax or pit-coal. Encyc. Brit.