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Traditional English :: ashbin
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ashbin.html - n.
a receptacle for the disposal of ashes. |
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Traditional English :: ashbin
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ashbin.html - n.
a receptacle for the disposal of ashes. |
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Traditional English :: ashbin
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ashbin.html - n.
a receptacle for the disposal of ashes. |
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Traditional English :: ASH
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ashbin.html - abbr.
Action on Smoking and Health. |
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Traditional English :: ash(1)
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ashbin.html - n. 1 (often in pl.) the powdery residue left after the burning of any substance. 2 (pl.) the remains of the human body after cremation or disintegration. 3 (the Ashes) Cricket a trophy competed for regularly by Australia and England. 4 ashlike material thrown out by a volcano. ash blonde 1 a very pale blonde colour.
2 a person with hair of this colour. Ash Wednesday the first day of Lent (from the custom of marking the foreheads of penitents with ashes on that day). [OE ósce] |
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Traditional English :: ash(2)
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ashbin.html - n. 1 any forest-tree of the genus Fraxinus, with silver-grey bark, compound leaves, and hard, tough, pale wood. 2 its wood. 3 an Old English runic letter, = (named from a word of which it was the first letter). ash-key the winged seed of the ash-tree, growing in clusters resembling keys. ash-plant a sapling from an ash-tree, used as a walking-stick etc. [OE ósc f. Gmc] |
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