ash 
ash (as̸h)
noun
- the white or grayish powder remaining after something has been thoroughly burned
- fine volcanic dust
- the silvery-gray color of wood ash; pallor
Etymology: ME asshe (usually in pl.) < OE æsce < IE base *as-, to burn > L arere, to be dry, burn, Goth azgo, ON aska, ash
ash (as̸h)
noun
- any of a genus (Fraxinus) of timber and shade trees of the olive family, having odd-pinnate leaves, winged fruit, and tough, springy wood
- the wood
- a letter of the Old English alphabet (æ or Æ), used to represent the sound (a)
Etymology: ME asshe < OE æsc < IE *os-ko < base *ōs-, ash > Ger esche, L ornus, mountain ash, ON askr
Converse of object
- pulverize: For example, pulverized fuel ash from power generation is widely used today.
- scatter: Ironically he was scattering the ashes of the father of another climber.
- regain: At least one consolation of a wet weekend is that it enabled us to watch England regain the Ashes.
- weep: There must have been a fashion for planting these weeping ashes.
- bury: An alternative to burial is to scatter or bury the ashes from a cremation in the garden.
Adjective modifier
- volcanic: There was some evidence of volcanic ash on the instrument tower of Ultimate Lady.
- toxic: You put garbage in and you get garbage out - particulates and dioxins in the air and heavy metals in the toxic ash.
- burnt: As DOGGETT stares at the body, it now appears completely burnt just ashes loosely attached to the bones.
Modifies a noun
- tray: The bowl incorporates a drip and ash tray for all surplus waste.
- sapling: There is quite a bit of undergrowth, largely birch and ash saplings plus nondescript bushes of various sorts.
- heap: Along with Communism, nuclear weapons appeared destined for the ash heap of history with the end of the Cold War.
Noun used with modifier
- soda: An acid to lower, or soda ash to increase.
- incinerator: SAI say incinerator ash is mixed with liquid waste on site at Shirecliffe before being buried in clay lined pits.
- campaigning: Deborah Arnott, Director of the health campaigning charity ASH, said: This report is misleading on several counts.
- fly: The pure fly ash being sent to Sheffield is the most toxic product of the incinerator.
- cremation: In the majority of cases the cremation ashes are strewn or buried in the gardens of remembrance.
- cigar: The interior had a conference table, 7 upholstered chairs and large ashtrays which were capable of accepting cigar ash.
Preposition: in
- urn: You can keep the ashes in an urn, scatter or bury them.
Preposition: of
- heifer: The ash of a red heifer was the wonder cure.
Preposition: from
- eruption: Natural production of dusts include ash from volcanic eruptions or forest fires, sea salt particles or Saharan dust.
Now we lament one Who danced on a plume of words, Sang with a fountain's panache, Dazzled like slate roofs in sun After rain, was flighty as birds And alone as a mountain ash. The ribald, inspired urchin Leaning over the lip Of his world, as over a rock pool Or a lucky dip, Found everything brilliant and virgin.
The sailing pine, the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry, The builder oak, sole king of forests all, The aspen good for staves, the cypress funeral. The laurel, meed of mighty conquerors And poets sage, the fir that weepeth still, The willow worn of forlorn paramours, The ewe obedient to the benders will, The birch for shafts, the sallow for the mill, The myrrh sweet bleeding in the bitter wound, The warlike beech, the ash for nothing ill, The fruitful olive, and the platan round, The carver holme, the maple seldom inward sound.
Of all the trees that grow so fair, Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the Sun, Than Oak, and Ash, and Thorn.
England shall bide till Judgement Tide By Oak, and Ash, and Thorn.
Out of the ash I rise with my red hair And I eat men like air.
There grows the wild ash; and a time-stricken willow Looks chidingly down on the mirth of the billow, As, like some gay child that sad monitor scorning, It lightly laughs back to the laugh of the morning.
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