ash

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

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}, {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 1: convert into ashes

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Ash \Ash\, n.,
   sing. of {Ashes}.
   [1913 Webster]

   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.
         [1913 Webster]

   {Bone ash}, burnt powered; bone earth.

   {Volcanic ash}. See under {Ashes}.
      [1913 Webster]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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}).
      [1913 Webster]

   {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}.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. The tough, elastic wood of the ash tree.
      [1913 Webster]

   Note: Ash is used adjectively, or as the first part of a
         compound term; as, ash bud, ash wood, ash tree, etc.
         [1913 Webster]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Ash \Ash\, v. t.
   To strew or sprinkle with ashes. --Howell.
   [1913 Webster]

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

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)

from V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006)

ASH
       Almquist SHell (BSD, Unix, Shell), "ash"

from Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

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 U.S. Gazetteer (1990)

Ash, NC
  Zip code(s): 28420

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

49 Moby Thesaurus words for "ash":
      alluvion, alluvium, ashes, brand, calx, carbon, charcoal, cinder,
      cinders, clinker, clinkers, coal, coals, coke, coom, deposition,
      deposits, diluvium, draff, dregs, dross, ember, embers, feces,
      froth, fume, fumes, grounds, lava, lees, loess, moraine, offscum,
      precipitate, precipitation, reek, scoria, scum, sediment,
      settlings, silt, sinter, slag, smoke, smudge, smut, soot,
      sublimate, sullage