ash

9 definitions found

ash - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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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  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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  Ash \Ash\, v. t.
     To strew or sprinkle with ashes. --Howell.
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ash - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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, 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 1: convert into ashes

ash - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  ash
  
     <tool> 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)
  

ash - V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) :

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

ash - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  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.

ash - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Ash, NC
    Zip code(s): 28420

ash - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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