ashy.html - adj.
(ashier, ashiest)
1 = ASHEN(1).
2 covered with ashes.

ashy.html - abbr.
Action on Smoking and Health.

ashy.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]

ashy.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]

ashy.html - adj.
(usu. predic.)
1 (often foll. by of (= with regard to), for (= on account of), or to + infin.) embarrassed or disconcerted by shame (ashamed of his aunt; ashamed of having lied; ashamed for you; ashamed to be seen with him).
2 (foll. by to + infin.) hesitant, reluctant (but usu. not actually refusing or declining) (am ashamed to admit that I was wrong).

ashamedly adv. [OE ascamod past part. of ascamian feel shame (as A-(2), SHAME)]

ashy.html - n.
a receptacle for the disposal of ashes.