ash
[æʃ]
n. , 烬

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[医] ; Л[树]

1. Don't drop cigarette ash on the carpet.
   别把落毯。
2. The smoldering coal or ash of a dying fire.
   余烬将熄灭火冒着块烬
3. Water flows from the condenser to the ash room.
   冷凝器流，流浆室。

ash
ashes
[ noun ]

1. the residue that remains when something is burned

<noun.substance>

2. any of various deciduous pinnate-leaved ornamental or timber trees of the genus Fraxinus

<noun.plant>

3. strong elastic wood of any of various ash trees; used for furniture and tool handles and sporting goods such as baseball bats

<noun.plant>

[ verb ]

1. convert into ashes

<verb.change>

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}.


Ash \Ash\, v. t.
To strew or sprinkle with ashes. --Howell.


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}).

{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.