1. the grayish-white to black powdery residue left when something is burned.
2. geology pulverized particulate matter ejected by volcanic eruption.
3. the mineral residue of incinerated organic matter, used as an additive in pet foods.
4. ruins: the ashes of a lost culture.
5. bodily remains, especially after cremation or decay.
6. to reduce or convert to ash: ash a tissue sample for analysis.
7. any of various chiefly deciduous ornamental or timber trees of the genus fraxinus, having opposite, pinnately compound leaves, clusters of small flowers, and one-seeded winged fruits.
8. the strong, elastic wood of this tree, used for furniture, tool handles, and sporting goods such as baseball bats.
9. linguistics the letter æ in old english and some modern phonetic alphabets, representing the vowel sound of modern english ash.

1. the solid remains of a fire.
2. the nonaqueous remains of a material subjected to any complete oxidation process.
3. fine particles from a volcano, volcanic ash.
4. human (or animal) remains after cremation.
5. what remains after a catastrophe.
6. to reduce to a residue of ash. see ashing.
7. to hit the end off of a burning cigar or cigarette.
8. to cover newly-sown fields of crops with ashes.
9. A shade tree of the genus fraxinus.
10. the wood of this tree.
11. the traditional name for the ae ligature (æ), as used in old english.

1. A genus of trees of the olive family, having opposite pinnate leaves, many of the species furnishing valuable timber, as the european ash (fraxinus excelsior) and the white ash (fraxinus Americana).
2. the tough, elastic wood of the ash tree.
3. sing. of ashes.
4. to strew or sprinkle with ashes.

1. in botany: the popular name of trees belonging to the genus fraxinus (which see).
2. the name (with some adjunct) of various trees or shrubs of other genera, generally from some resemblance in foliage or qualities of the wood to the common ash. (see below.) also, in parts of england, the name of some herbaceous plants, chiefly umbelliferous, as the ground-ash, or ashweed, Ægopodium Podagraria and angelica sylvestris, and the sweet ash, Anthriscus sylvestris.
3. the wood of the ash-tree; hence, something made of ash, as the shaft of a lance or spear.
4. pertaining to or like the ash; made of ash.
5. to strew or sprinkle with ashes.
6. to convert into ashes.
7. what remains of a body that is burned; the incombustible residue of organic substances (animal or vegetable) remaining after combustion; in common usage, any incombustible residue of materials used as fuel: usually in the plural.
8. fine material thrown out of a volcano in eruption.
9. plural the remains of the human body when burned; hence, a dead body or corpse; mortal remains.
10. in australia, the name of various trees having a real or fancied resemblance to those of the genus fraxinus, especially of trees of the genera Elæocarpus and Flindersia.
11. fraxinus lanceolata.
12. A small australian tree, Elæodendrum australe, whose close-grained pinkish wood is used for staves, oars, and shingles. also called olive-wood.
13. the green ash, fraxinus lanceolata.
14. the involatile constituents of wine; the solid residue evaporated to dryness.

1. convert into ashes
2. strong elastic wood of any of various ash trees; used for furniture and tool handles and sporting goods such as baseball bats
3. the residue that remains when something is burned
4. any of various deciduous pinnate-leaved ornamental or timber trees of the genus fraxinus