Ash

9 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ash \Ash\, n.,
     sing. of {Ashes}.
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     Note: Ash is rarely used in the singular except in connection
           with chemical or geological products; as, soda ash,


           coal which yields a red ash, etc., or as a qualifying
           or combining word; as, ash bin, ash heap, ash hole, ash
           pan, ash pit, ash-grey, ash-colored, pearlash, potash.
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     {Bone ash}, burnt powered; bone earth.
  
     {Volcanic ash}. See under {Ashes}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ash \Ash\ ([a^]sh), n. [OE. asch, esh, AS. [ae]sc; akin to OHG.
     asc, Sw. & Dan. ask, Icel. askr, D. esch, G. esche.]
     1. (Bot.) A genus of trees of the Olive family, having
        opposite pinnate leaves, many of the species furnishing
        valuable timber, as the European ash ({Fraxinus
        excelsior}) and the white ash ({Fraxinus Americana}).
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     {Prickly ash} ({Zanthoxylum Americanum}) and {Poison ash}
        ({Rhus venenata}) are shrubs of different families,
        somewhat resembling the true ashes in their foliage.
  
     {Mountain ash}. See {Roman tree}, and under {Mountain}.
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     2. The tough, elastic wood of the ash tree.
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     Note: Ash is used adjectively, or as the first part of a
           compound term; as, ash bud, ash wood, ash tree, etc.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ash \Ash\, v. t.
     To strew or sprinkle with ashes. --Howell.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ash
       n 1: the residue that remains when something is burned
       2: any of various deciduous pinnate-leaved ornamental or timber
          trees of the genus Fraxinus [syn: {ash tree}]
       3: strong elastic wood of any of various ash trees; used for
          furniture and tool handles and sporting goods such as
          baseball bats
       v : convert into ashes

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  49 Moby Thesaurus words for "ash":
     alluvion, alluvium, ashes, brand, calx, carbon, charcoal, cinder,
     cinders, clinker, clinkers, coal, coals, coke, coom, deposition,
     deposits, diluvium, draff, dregs, dross, ember, embers, feces,
     froth, fume, fumes, grounds, lava, lees, loess, moraine, offscum,
     precipitate, precipitation, reek, scoria, scum, sediment,
     settlings, silt, sinter, slag, smoke, smudge, smut, soot,
     sublimate, sullage
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  ASH
       Almquist SHell (BSD, Unix, Shell), "ash"
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  ash
       
           A {Bourne Shell} clone by Kenneth Almquist.  It works
          pretty well.  For running scripts, it is sometimes better and
          sometimes worse than {Bash}.
       
          Ash runs under {386BSD}, {NetBSD}, {FreeBSD}, and {Linux}.
       
          {FTP Linux version
          (ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux/ports/ash-linux-0.1.tar.gz)}.
       
          (1995-07-20)
       
       

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Ash
     (Heb. o'ren, "tremulous"), mentioned only Isa. 44:14 (R.V., "fir
     tree"). It is rendered "pine tree" both in the LXX. and Vulgate
     versions. There is a tree called by the Arabs _aran_, found
     still in the valleys of Arabia Petraea, whose leaf resembles
     that of the mountain ash. This may be the tree meant. Our ash
     tree is not known in Syria.
     

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Ash, NC
    Zip code(s): 28420