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  1. noun The grayish-white to black powdery residue left when something is burned.
  2. noun Geology Pulverized particulate matter ejected by volcanic eruption.
  3. noun The mineral residue of incinerated organic matter, used as an additive in pet foods.
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  • I think that the alder also survives the rabbit more than some others; the ash and the mountain-ash are almost always barked and destroyed. —  MY STRANGE PETS AND Other Memories of Country Life
  • Some recalled the ash: tall straight grey Ents with many-fingered hands and long legs; some the fir (the tallest Ents), and others the birch, the rowan, and the linden. —  The Lord of the Rings
  • That ash is in two forms: fly-ash, tiny airborne particles, or bottom ash, the larger particles. —  EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed
  • "Like most eruptions in Alaska, the greatest hazard is from airborne volcanic ash which is tiny bits of broken rock and glass that comes out of the volcano," Schneider said. —  Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News
  • The gold to crap ratio is quite impressive by mining standards: 4.2 pounds of gold for each ton of molten ash, which is generated after the plant-located in the town of Suwa - incinerates the sludge. —  Gizmodo
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  1. Middle English asshe, from Old English æsce; see as- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English asshe, from Old English æsc.

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  1. from Middle English asch, assh, esche, etc., from Anglo-Saxon œsc = Dutch esch = Old High German asc, Middle High German asch, masculine, German esche, feminine, = Icelandic askr = Danish Swedish ask = Old Bulgarian yasika = Lithuanian usis, the ash.
  2. English dial. plural axen, Scots as, ass, plural asses; from Middle English ash, ashe, asche, aische, esche, asse, aske, axe, plural ashes, asches, askes, axes, and with older termination ashen, aschen, asken, axen, from Anglo-Saxon asce, œsce, axe, plural ascan, œscan, axan, œxan, = Dutch asch = Old High German asga, asca, Middle High German asche, esche, G. asche = Icelandic Swedish aska = Danish aske = Gothic (Moesogothic) azgō, ash.
  3. from ash, n.
 

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