From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Ash \Ash\, n.,
sing. of Ashes.
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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.
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Bone ash, burnt powered; bone earth.
Volcanic ash. See under Ashes.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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 (Fraxinus Americana).
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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.
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2. The tough, elastic wood of the ash tree.
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Note: Ash is used adjectively, or as the first part of a
compound term; as, ash bud, ash wood, ash tree, etc.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Ash \Ash\, v. t.
To strew or sprinkle with ashes. --Howell.
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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 Sep 2003) [foldoc]:
ash
<tool> A 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)