Ash Definition

ăsh
ashes
noun
ashes
The grayish-white to black powdery residue left when something is burned.
American Heritage
The white or grayish powder remaining after something has been thoroughly burned.
Webster's New World
Pulverized particulate matter ejected by volcanic eruption.
American Heritage
Fine volcanic dust.
Webster's New World
The mineral residue of incinerated organic matter, used as an additive in pet foods.
American Heritage
verb
To reduce or convert to ash.
Ash a tissue sample for analysis.
American Heritage

(chemistry) To reduce to a residue of ash. See ashing.

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To hit the end off of a burning cigar or cigarette.

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1849, in a lettre to James Higgins, published in 1850 in The American Farmer, volume V, number 7, pages 227-8
After the corn was planted, upon acre A, I spread broadcast one hundred bushels of lime, (cost $3) and fifty bushels of ashes, (cost $6.) […] The extra crop of the combination over the limed acre or ashed, was paid by the increased crop, […]
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pronoun

A topographic surname​ for someone who lived near ash trees.

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A male given name transferred from the surname.
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A diminutive of the female given names Ashley and Ashlee.

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Other Word Forms of Ash

Noun

Singular:
ash
Plural:
ashes

Origin of Ash

  • From Middle English asshe, from Old English æsce, from Proto-Germanic *askǭ (compare West Frisian jiske, Dutch as, Low German Asch, German Asche, Danish aske, Swedish aska), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éHōs (compare Hittite [script?] (ḫašša, “potash, ashes”)[Cuneiform?], Ancient Greek ἄζα (aza, “dry dirt”), Albanian ashkë (“amadou, touchwood, tinder”), Old Armenian աճիւն (ačiwn, “ashes”), Ormuri yānak, Sanskrit आस (āsa, “ashes, dust”)), Kurdish ax (“soil”) (compare with xwelî (“ash”), cognate with English "soil").

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English asshe, from Old English æsc, from Proto-Germanic *askaz, *askiz (compare West Frisian esk, Dutch es, German Esche, Danish/Swedish ask), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃osk- (compare Welsh onnen, Latin ornus (“wild mountain ash”), Lithuanian úosis, Russian ясень (jasenʹ), Albanian ah (“beech”), Ancient Greek ὀξύα (oksua, “beech”), Old Armenian հացի (hacʿi)).

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  • Middle English asshe from Old English æsce as- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English asshe from Old English æsc

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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