Definition of ashes

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Ashes (n. pl.) Specifically: The remains of the human body when burnt, or when returned to dust by natural decay..

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Favillous :: Favillous (a.) Of or pertaining to ashes.
Dump :: Dump (n.) A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc..
Laver :: Laver (n.) That which washes or cleanses.
Cineration :: Cineration (n.) The reducing of anything to ashes by combustion; cinefaction.
Morse Alphabet :: Morse alphabet () A telegraphic alphabet in very general use, inventing by Samuel F.B.Morse, the inventor of Morse's telegraph. The letters are represented by dots and dashes impressed or printed on paper, as, .- (A), - . . . (B), -.. (D), . (E), .. (O), . . . (R), -- (T), etc., or by sounds, flashes of light, etc., with greater or less intervals between them..
Ashes :: Ashes (n. pl.) The earthy or mineral particles of combustible substances remaining after combustion, as of wood or coal..
Incremate :: Incremate (v. t.) To consume or reduce to ashes by burning, as a dead body; to cremate..
Ashen :: Ashen (n.) obs. pl. for Ashes.
Spodomantic :: Spodomancy (n.) Divination by means of ashes.
Flashes :: Flashes (pl. ) of Flas.
Boothose :: Boothose (n.) Stocking hose, or spatterdashes, in lieu of boots..
Hoecake :: Hoecake (n.) A cake of Indian meal, water, and salt, baked before the fire or in the ashes; -- so called because often cooked on a hoe..
Lixiviate :: Lixiviate (v. t.) To subject to a washing process for the purpose of separating soluble material from that which is insoluble; to leach, as ashes, for the purpose of extracting the alkaline substances..
Gamashes :: Gamashes (n. pl.) High boots or buskins; in Scotland, short spatterdashes or riding trousers, worn over the other clothing..
Lixivial :: Lixivial (a.) Impregnated with, or consisting of, alkaline salts extracted from wood ashes; impregnated with a salt or salts like a lixivium..
Cremate :: Cremate (v. t.) To burn; to reduce to ashes by the action of fire, either directly or in an oven or retort; to incremate or incinerate; as, to cremate a corpse, instead of burying it..
Riddle :: Riddle (n.) A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand..
Lapilli :: Lapilli (n. pl.) Volcanic ashes, consisting of small, angular, stony fragments or particles..
Barilla :: Barilla (n.) Impure soda obtained from the ashes of any seashore plant, or kelp..
Breeze :: Breeze (n.) Refuse coal, coal ashes, and cinders, used in the burning of bricks..
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