trans. [f. prec. sb.]
1. To mark, write, or blacken, with charcoal.
1840. Thackeray, Paris Sk. Bk. (1867), 387. Half a lame couplet charcoaled on the wall.
1860. All Y. Round, No. 47. 493. Brows … charcoaled with some black pigment.
1865. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., IV. 178.
2. To suffocate with the fumes of charcoal.
1839. Dickens, Nich. Nick., xxxvii. Because she wouldn’t shut herself up in an air-tight three-pair-of-stairs and charcoal herself to death.
1866. Lond. Rev., 16 June, 665. The novelist … drowned one character, shot another, charcoaled a third, and in some manner got rid of the entire lot.
