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/ˈæʃəz/ /ˈæʃɪz/ Listen

noun

Ashes n. pl.

The earthy or mineral particles of combustible substances remaining after combustion, as of wood or coal.

Specifically: The remains of the human body when burnt, or when "returned to dust" by natural decay. "Their martyred blood and ashes sow." "The coffins were broken open. The ashes were scattered to the winds."

The color of ashes; deathlike paleness. "The lip of ashes, and the cheek of flame."

In dust and ashes, In sackcloth and ashes, with humble expression of grief or repentance; from the method of mourning in Eastern lands.

Volcanic ashes, or Volcanic ash, the loose, earthy matter, or small fragments of stone or lava, ejected by volcanoes.

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Etymology of 'Ashes'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... rose and lilac bushes, a walled spring of delicious water in the cellar, and a whole world of wealth; but the potato lot looked up in despair—a patch of yellow clay. Mother put a twelve years' accumulation of coal ashes on it, and thus proved them valuable both as a fertilizer and a preventive of potato-rot, though at first her project ...

— Half a Century • Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm

... De Republic Ecclesiastic, but that he himself was able to deal with them." The Inquisition seized him, and he was conveyed to the Castle of St. Angelo, where he soon died, as some writers assert, by poison. His body and his books were burned by the executioner, and the ashes thrown into the Tiber. Dr. Fitzgerald, Rector of the English College at Rome, thus describes him: "He was a malcontent knave when he fled from us, a railing knave when he lived with you, and a motley particoloured knave ...

— Books Fatal to Their Authors • P. H. Ditchfield

... too, came to be avenged, and to take her turn at him with the rest. He watched her nimbly climb the ladder. Rage and spite choked him. He longed to destroy the pillory; and had the lightning of his eye had power to blast, the gypsy girl would have been reduced to ashes long before she reached the platform. Without a word she approached the sufferer, loosened a gourd from her girdle, and raised it gently to the parched lips of the miserable man. Then from his eye a great tear trickled, ...

— The World's Greatest Books, Volume V. • Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds.

... Certe found his house a heap of ashes, and himself reduced to a state of destitution. This being his normal state, however, he was not profoundly affected. Neither was his wife; ...

— The Buffalo Runners - A Tale of the Red River Plains • R.M. Ballantyne

... business for himself, and with what he can gouge from the just wages of his employees he pays pew rent and gives to the heathen. It is the same old story—hypocrisy and greed! Drain the blood of the poor in order to build monuments to their ashes!" ...

— For Gold or Soul? - The Story of a Great Department Store • Lurana W. Sheldon

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