1. n.1 (often in pl.) the powdery residue left after the burning of any substance.
2 (pl.) the remains of the human body after cremation or disintegration.
3 (the Ashes) Cricket a trophy competed for regularly by Australia and England.
4 ashlike material thrown out by a volcano.
Phrases and idioms:
ash blonde
1. a very pale blonde colour.
2 a person with hair of this colour. Ash Wednesday the first day of Lent (from the custom of marking the foreheads of penitents with ashes on that day).
Etymology: OE {aelig}sce 2. n.1 any forest-tree of the genus Fraxinus, with silver-grey bark, compound leaves, and hard, tough, pale wood.
2 its wood.
3 an Old English runic letter, {aelig} (named from a word of which it was the first letter).
Phrases and idioms:
ash-key the winged seed of the ash-tree, growing in clusters resembling keys. ash-plant a sapling from an ash-tree, used as a walking-stick etc.
Etymology: OE {aelig}sc f. Gmc