Definition of ashes

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Ashes (n. pl.) The earthy or mineral particles of combustible substances remaining after combustion, as of wood or coal..

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Ashery :: Ashery (n.) A depository for ashes.
Bed :: Bed (n.) A mass or heap of anything arranged like a bed; as, a bed of ashes or coals..
Whipcord :: Whipcord (n.) A kind of hard-twisted or braided cord, sometimes used for making whiplashes..
Cineraceous :: Cineraceous (a.) Like ashes; ash-colored; cinereous.
Laver :: Laver (n.) That which washes or cleanses.
Dash :: Dash (n.) A mark or line [--], in writing or printing, denoting a sudden break, stop, or transition in a sentence, or an abrupt change in its construction, a long or significant pause, or an unexpected or epigrammatic turn of sentiment. Dashes are also sometimes used instead of marks or parenthesis..
Gleam :: Gleam (v. t.) To shoot out (flashes of light, etc.)..
Lighten :: Lighten (v. i.) To burst forth or dart, as lightning; to shine with, or like, lightning; to display a flash or flashes of lightning; to flash..
Manna :: Manna (n.) A sweetish exudation in the form of pale yellow friable flakes, coming from several trees and shrubs and used in medicine as a gentle laxative, as the secretion of Fraxinus Ornus, and F. rotundifolia, the manna ashes of Southern Europe..
Putty :: Putty (n.) A kind of thick paste or cement compounded of whiting, or soft carbonate of lime, and linseed oil, when applied beaten or kneaded to the consistence of dough, -- used in fastening glass in sashes, stopping crevices, and for similar purposes..
Potash :: Potash (n.) The impure potassium carbonate obtained by leaching wood ashes, either as a strong solution (lye), or as a white crystalline (pearlash)..
Flashes :: Flashes (pl. ) of Flas.
Sashery :: Sashery (n.) A collection of sashes; ornamentation by means of sashes.
Lapilli :: Lapilli (n. pl.) Volcanic ashes, consisting of small, angular, stony fragments or particles..
Last :: Last (n.) A load; a heavy burden; hence, a certain weight or measure, generally estimated at 4,000 lbs., but varying for different articles and in different countries. In England, a last of codfish, white herrings, meal, or ashes, is twelve barrels; a last of corn, ten quarters, or eighty bushels, in some parts of England, twenty-one quarters; of gunpowder, twenty-four barrels, each containing 100 lbs; of red herrings, twenty cades, or 20,000; of hides, twelve dozen; of leather, twenty dickers;
Sash :: Sash (v. t.) To furnish with a sash or sashes; as, to sash a door or a window..
Spatterdashed :: Spatterdashed (a.) Wearing spatterdashes.
Ashes :: Ashes (n. pl.) Specifically: The remains of the human body when burnt, or when returned to dust by natural decay..
Incinerate :: Incinerate () Reduced to ashes by burning; thoroughly consumed.
Repentant :: Repentant (a.) Expressing or showing sorrow for sin; as, repentant tears; repentant ashes..
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