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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Lixivial :: Lixivial (a.) Impregnated with, or consisting of, alkaline salts extracted from wood ashes; impregnated with a salt or salts like a lixivium..
Repentant :: Repentant (a.) Expressing or showing sorrow for sin; as, repentant tears; repentant ashes..
Barilla :: Barilla (n.) Impure soda obtained from the ashes of any seashore plant, or kelp..
Screenings :: Screenings (n. pl.) The refuse left after screening sand, coal, ashes, etc..
Leach :: Leach (v. t.) To dissolve out; -- often used with out; as, to leach out alkali from ashes..
Slash Pine :: Slash pine () A kind of pine tree (Pinus Cubensis) found in Southern Florida and the West Indies; -- so called because it grows in slashes..
Gamashes :: Gamashes (n. pl.) High boots or buskins; in Scotland, short spatterdashes or riding trousers, worn over the other clothing..
Incinerable :: Incinerable (a.) Capable of being incinerated or reduced to ashes.
Ember :: Ember (n.) A lighted coal, smoldering amid ashes; -- used chiefly in the plural, to signify mingled coals and ashes; the smoldering remains of a fire..
Leach :: Leach (n.) A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc..
Whip :: Whip (v. t.) To punish with a whip, scourge, or rod; to flog; to beat; as, to whip a vagrant; to whip one with thirty nine lashes; to whip a perverse boy..
Masher :: Masher (n.) One who, or that which, mashes; also (Brewing), a machine for making mash..
Ashes :: Ashes (n. pl.) Specifically: The remains of the human body when burnt, or when returned to dust by natural decay..
Gambadoes :: Gambadoes (n.) Same as Gamashes.
Cinefaction :: Cinefaction (n.) Cineration; reduction to ashes.
Lapilli :: Lapilli (n. pl.) Volcanic ashes, consisting of small, angular, stony fragments or particles..
Cinerulent :: Cinerulent (a.) Full of ashes.
Ash Wednesday :: Ash Wednesday () The first day of Lent; -- so called from a custom in the Roman Catholic church of putting ashes, on that day, upon the foreheads of penitents..
Ash :: Ash (v. t.) To strew or sprinkle with ashes.
Eclampsia :: Eclampsia (n.) A fancied perception of flashes of light, a symptom of epilepsy; hence, epilepsy itself; convulsions..
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