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

  Ashen \Ash"en\, a. [See {Ash}, the tree.]
     Of or pertaining to the ash tree. "Ashen poles." --Dryden.
     [1913 Webster]

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



  Ashen \Ash"en\, a.
     Consisting of, or resembling, ashes; of a color between brown
     and gray, or white and gray.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           The ashen hue of age.                    --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
     [1913 Webster]

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

  Ashen \Ash"en\, n.,
     obs. pl. for {Ashes}. --Chaucer.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ashen
       adj 1: ash-colored or anemic looking from illness or emotion; "a
              face turned ashen"; "the invalid's blanched cheeks";
              "tried to speak with bloodless lips"; "a face livid
              with shock"; "lips...livid with the hue of death"-
              Mary W. Shelley; "lips white with terror"; "a face
              white with rage" [syn: {blanched}, {bloodless}, {livid},
               {white}]
       2: made of wood of the ash tree

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

  162 Moby Thesaurus words for "ashen":
     Quaker-colored, achromatic, achromic, acier, adust, aghast, anemic,
     appalled, ashy, astounded, awed, awestricken, awestruck, blanched,
     bleached, bled white, blistered, bloodless, burned, burnt,
     burnt-up, cadaverous, canescent, chloranemic, cinereous, cinerous,
     colorless, consumed, consumed by fire, corpselike, cowed, dapple,
     dapple-gray, dappled, dappled-gray, dead, deadly pale,
     deathly pale, decolorized, dim, dimmed, dingy, discolored, dismal,
     doughy, dove-colored, dove-gray, dreary, dull, dusty, etiolated,
     exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, faded, faint, fallow,
     flat, frozen, ghastly, ghostly, glaucescent, glaucous, gray,
     gray with fear, gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab,
     gray-green, gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish,
     griseous, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, gutted, haggard, horrified,
     horror-struck, hueless, hypochromic, incinerated, intimidated,
     iron-gray, lackluster, lead-gray, leaden, livid, lurid, lusterless,
     macabre, mat, mealy, mouse-colored, mouse-gray, mousy, muddy,
     neutral, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, paralyzed,
     parched, pasty, pearl, pearl-gray, pearly, petrified, pyrographic,
     pyrolyzed, sad, sallow, scared stiff, scared to death, scorched,
     seared, sickly, silver, silver-gray, silvered, silvery, singed,
     slate-colored, slaty, smoke-gray, smoky, sober, somber, steel-gray,
     steely, stone-colored, stunned, stupefied, sunburned, tallow-faced,
     taupe, terrified, terror-crazed, terror-haunted, terror-ridden,
     terror-riven, terror-shaken, terror-smitten, terror-struck,
     terror-troubled, toneless, uncolored, undone, unmanned, unnerved,
     unstrung, wan, washed-out, waxen, weak, whey-faced, white
  
  

















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