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Webster 1913 Edition
Ash
Ash
(ăsh)
, Noun.
[OE.
asch
, esh
, AS. æsc
; 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
). 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
.2.
The tough, elastic wood of the ash tree.
Ash is used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound term; as, ash bud,
ash
wood, ash
tree, etc. Ash
,Noun.
sing. of
Ashes
. ☞ 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.
Ash
,Verb.
T.
To strew or sprinkle with ashes.
Howell.
Webster 1828 Edition
Ash
ASH
,Noun.
1.
A well known tree, of which there are many species. There is no hermaphrodite calyx, or it is quadripartite; and no corol, or it is tetrapetalous. There are two stamens; one pistil; one seed, contained in a membranous, lanceolate capsule, and the pistil of the female flower is lanceolate. The leaves are pinnate, and the capsules grow in cluster. This wood is valuable, for fuel, as well as for timber; and the tree, when it grows in an open field, often forms, with its branches, a beautiful oval figure and a thick shade.2.
The wood of the ash tree.ASH
,Adj.