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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ash \Ash\, noun, sing. of {Ashes}.
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.
{Bone ash}, burnt powered; bone earth.
{Volcanic ash}. See under {Ashes}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ash \Ash\, verb (used with an object) To strew or sprinkle with ashes. --Howell.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ash \Ash\ ([a^]sh), noun [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}).
{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.
Note: Ash is used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound term; as, ash bud, ash wood, ash tree, etc.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
ash
noun
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 tree}]
3: strong elastic wood of any of various ash trees; used for furniture and tool handles and sporting goods such as baseball bats
verb: convert into ashes
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
ash 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)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Ash, NC Zip code(s): 28420
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
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.
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
ASH Almquist SHell (BSD, Unix, Shell), "ash"
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