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(n)
A tree of the genus Fraxinus, with compound leaves and a tough, flexible wood.
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The fine particles which are the result of reducing a dry substance by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or the result of decay; dust.
A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
(uncountable) The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
(attributively) the Ashes
Cremated remains of a deceased person.
A vessel for the ashes or cremains of a deceased person.
Fine particles.
Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic.
An achromatic colour between black and white.
Fine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc.
A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
Commonwealth standard spelling of gray.
The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground.
A volcanic rock.
(geology) The solid material thrown into the air by a volcanic eruption that settles on the surrounding areas.
An action in which something is baked.
(chiefly US, Philippines, uncountable) Any carbonated (usually sweet) soft drink.
Sodium bicarbonate used as a mild antacid; bicarbonate of soda.
Any substance containing such an anion.
Unnatural paleness, especially as a sign of sickness or distress.
(countable) (in more general use) As the preceding, but limited to those that are commercial timbers, and are at least average in hardness.
The body or any of its matter that are left after a person (or any organism) dies; a corpse.
That which persists or remains following the removal or elimination of other elements.
A country ruled by an emir.
A large city in Gujarat, India.
A topographic surname from Middle English, spelling variant of Ash.
(adj)
Damaged or consumed by heat, fire, oxidation, or similar process.
A small circular receptacle used in assaying gold or silver with lead.
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The smoldering or glowing remains of a fire, smoldering ash.
(geology, plural only) Fragments of lava; scoria.
(by extension) Any debris or fragments of disintegrated material.
The slag or dross that remains after the smelting of metal from an ore.
Waste or impure matter.
Impurities formed and separated out when a metal is smelted from ore; vitrified cinders.
Slag or ash produced by intense heat in a furnace, kiln or boiler that forms a hard residue upon cooling.
(computing, programming) A character (text element such as a letter or symbol).
Alternative form of by-product. [Something made incidentally during the production of something else.]
A negative side effect; an undesirable or unexpected consequence.
A worthless and incidental residuum, such as scraps from a meal, or shavings or sawdust from wood.
Excess of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
Small particles of cereal at the bottom of a cereal box.
A dustbin, trash can, or the like.
A pit for the disposal of ashes.
A light, gentle wind.
A container that fits below the grate of a domestic fireplace.
The residue found at the bottom of a woodfired limekiln, consisting of waste lime and wood ash, and traditionally used for flooring.
(uncountable) Sexually vulgar material; something that is sexual in a dirty way; pornographic material.
Alternative form of ashpit. [A pit for the disposal of ashes.]
Alternative form of ashtray. [A receptacle for ash and butts from cigarettes and cigars.]
(uncountable) A black or brownish black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel.
A metal pan or tray to catch and retain ashes.
Alternative form of ashbin. [ashcan]
The act of bedding ashlar in mortar.
Soil formed of dead but not fully decayed plants found in bog areas, often burned as fuel.
An unburnt brick dried in the sun.
A mark or scar made by burning with a hot iron, especially to mark cattle or to classify the contents of a cask.
A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned.
ashcan
Smoke from burning coal.
Little sticks; twigs for burning; firewood.
A speck of soot.
(slang, Canada, US, countable and uncountable) Silly talk, a foolish belief, a poor excuse, nonsense.
Obsolete form of soot. [Fine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc.]
(obsolete) ashlar
Alternative form of ashlaring. [The act of bedding ashlar in mortar.]
Small dry sticks and finely-divided fibrous matter etc., used to help light a fire.
(US, historical) A cask filled with ash used to produce lye, which would be leached out by water (especially rainwater).
A lighted coal left smothered in embers overnight, about which kindling wood is gathered in the morning.
A brace, band, or clasp for strengthening or holding things that are apart together.
Wood intended to be burned, typically for heat.
Smoke from burning wood.
A floating piece, or pieces, of wood that drifts with the current of a body of water.
The combustion of residue deposits referred to as soot or creosote, on the inner surfaces of chimney tiles, flue liners, stove pipes, etc.
A sharp or witty reply, or one which turns an argument against its originator; a comeback.
An accumulation or buildup, especially of unfilled orders, unconsumed products or unfinished work.
Any black fluid substance, as in blacking for leather, or black grease.
A mid-to-dark brown color resembling the pigment.
The dust of bricks.
A fibrous brown coal or bituminous wood.
(uncountable) Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.
Dirt; filth.
The pungent smoke of a peat fire.
(nautical, historical, in the plural) A sailor's best clothes, to be worn when going on land.
(archaeology) burnt-clay remains associated with historical salt production.
(obsolete) Wind-blown fallen wood.
A kind of small charcoal used for roasting ore.
Any of several birds of prey, especially a kite, Milvus milvus.
(figuratively) Food for thought.