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8 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Ash \Ash\ ([a^]sh), n. [OE. asch, esh, AS [ae]sc; akin to OHG. asc, Sw & Dan. ask Icel. askr, D. esch, G. esche.] 1. (Bot.) 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 ({F. Americana}). {Prickly ash} ({Zanthoxylum Americanum}) and {Poison ash} ({Rhus venenata}) are shrubs of different families, somewhat resembling the true ashes in their foliage. {Mountain ash}. See {Roman tree}, and under {Mountain}. 2. The tough, elastic wood of the ash tree. Note: Ash is used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound term; as ash bud, ash wood, ash tree, etc From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Ash \Ash\, n., sing. of {Ashes}. Note: Ash is rarely used in the singular except in connection with chemical or geological products; as soda ash, coal which yields a red ash, etc., or as a qualifying or combining word as ash bin, ash heap, ash hole, ash pan, ash pit, ash-grey, ash-colored, pearlash, potash. {Bone ash}, burnt powered; bone earth. {Volcanic ash}. See under {Ashes}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Ash \Ash\, v. t. To strew or sprinkle with ashes. --Howell. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: ash n 1: the residue that remains when something is burned 2: any of various deciduous pinnate-leaved ornamental or timber trees of the genus Fraxinus [syn: {ash tree}] 3: strong elastic wood of any of various ash trees; used for furniture and tool handles and sporting goods such as baseball bats v : convert into ashes From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: Ash, NC Zip code(s): 28420 From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: ashA {Bourne Shell} clone by Kenneth Almquist It works pretty well For running scripts, it is sometimes better and sometimes worse than {Bash}. Ash runs under {386BSD}, {NetBSD}, {FreeBSD}, and {Linux}. {FTP Linux version (ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux/ports/ash-linux-0.1.tar.gz)}. (1995-07-20) From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Ash (Heb. o'ren, "tremulous"), mentioned only Isa. 44:14 (R.V., "fir tree"). It is rendered "pine tree" both in the LXX. and Vulgate versions. There is a tree called by the Arabs _aran_, found still in the valleys of Arabia Petraea whose leaf resembles that of the mountain ash. This may be the tree meant Our ash tree is not known in Syria. From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]: ASH Almquist SHell (BSD, Unix, Shell), ash"
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