meaning of ash
1. 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 (F. Americana).
2. The tough, elastic wood of the ash tree.
3. sing. of Ashes.
4. To strew or sprinkle with ashes.
5. The first day of Lent; -- so called from a custom in the Roman Catholic church of putting ashes, on that day, upon the foreheads of penitents.
6. any of various deciduous pinnate-leaved ornamental or timber trees of the genus Fraxinus
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