Usually means: Charcoal component in fossilized carbonaceous shale.
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  8. fusain: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  13. fusain: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  17. fusain: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
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Definitions from Wiktionary (fusain)

noun:  Fine charcoal of willow wood, used as a drawing implement.
noun:  A drawing made with it.
noun:  Fossilized charcoal that exists in geologic formations, which often contain other fossil fuels nearby as well (e.g., bitumen, brown coal).

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