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‖ liˈthanthrax Obs.
Also 7 lithanthrix, 8 lithonthrax.
[Mod.L., f. Gr. λίθ-ος stone + ἄνθραξ charcoal.]
Used as a scientific name for mineral coal (i.e. ‘coal’ in the mod. sense), in distinction from xylanthrax (charcoal).
1611Speed Theat. Gt. Brit. i. xlvi. 89 The Chiefest commodity..are those Stones Linthancraces [sic: ? read lithantraces], which wee call Sea-coales. 1696Phillips (ed. 5), Lithanthrix, a stony Coal, being a kind of Gagate. 1706Ibid. (ed. Kersey), Lithanthrax, stony Coal, a kind of Jeat; Pit-coal, or Sea-coal. a1728Woodward Nat. Hist. Fossils i. (1729) I. 165 Lithonthrax, or Coal. 1802A. Ellicott Jrnl. (1803) 24 Mines of pit coal (lithanthrax), are..inexhaustible from Pittsburgh many miles down the river. |