Ash

  • 31ASH — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom.   Sigles d’une seule lettre   Sigles de deux lettres > Sigles de trois lettres   Sigles de quatre lettres …

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  • 32ash — (tree)    A traditional cure, recorded in several counties, for young children with hernias; an ash sapling, preferably one grown from seed and never touched by a knife, was split down the middle and held open with wedges, the child was passed… …

    A Dictionary of English folklore

  • 33ash — I. /æʃ / (say ash) noun 1. the powdery residue of matter that remains after burning: hot ashes; cigarette ash; soda ash. 2. Geology finely pulverised lava thrown out by a volcano in eruption. –verb (t) 3. to cause the ash collected on the tip of… …

  • 34ash — 1. noun /æʃ/ a) The solid remains of a fire. The audience was more captivated by the growing ash at the end of his cigarette than by his words. b) The nonaqueous remains of a material subjected to any complete oxidation process. Ash from a… …

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  • 35ash — [[t]æ̱ʃ[/t]] ashes 1) N UNCOUNT: also N in pl Ash is the grey or black powdery substance that is left after something is burnt. You can also refer to this substance as ashes. A cloud of volcanic ash is spreading across wide areas of the… …

    English dictionary

  • 36Ash — This surname, of Anglo Saxon origin, is either a topographical name for someone who lived near a prominent ash tree, deriving from the Olde English pre 7th Century oesc meaning ash , or it may be a locational name from some minor place so named.… …

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  • 37ash — [OE] There are two distinct words ash in English: ash the tree and ash ‘burnt material’. The tree (Old English æsc) comes from a prehistoric Germanic *askiz, which in turn derived from the Indo European base *os ; this was the source of several… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 38ash */*/ — UK [æʃ] / US noun Word forms ash : singular ash plural ashes 1) [countable/uncountable] the grey powder that remains after something has burned cigarette ash All that remained of the fire was a pile of ashes. 2) a) ash or ash tree [countable] a… …

    English dictionary

  • 39ash — [OE] There are two distinct words ash in English: ash the tree and ash ‘burnt material’. The tree (Old English æsc) comes from a prehistoric Germanic *askiz, which in turn derived from the Indo European base *os ; this was the source of several… …

    Word origins

  • 40ash — I. noun Etymology: Middle English asshe, from Old English æsc; akin to Old High German ask ash, Latin ornus mountain ash Date: before 12th century 1. any of a genus (Fraxinus) of trees of the olive family with pinnate leaves, thin furrowed bark,… …

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