Definition of ashes

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Ashes (n. pl.) Specifically: The remains of the human body when burnt, or when returned to dust by natural decay..

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Spatterdashes :: Spatterdashes (n. pl.) Coverings for the legs, to protect them from water and mud; long gaiters..
Ashes :: Ashes (n. pl.) The color of ashes; deathlike paleness.
Photopsia :: Photopsia (n.) An affection of the eye, in which the patient perceives luminous rays, flashes, coruscations, etc. See phosphene..
Swash :: Swash (n.) A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes..
Cineration :: Cineration (n.) The reducing of anything to ashes by combustion; cinefaction.
Lixiviate :: Lixiviate (v. t.) To subject to a washing process for the purpose of separating soluble material from that which is insoluble; to leach, as ashes, for the purpose of extracting the alkaline substances..
Cremator :: Cremator (n.) One who, or that which, cremates or consumes to ashes..
Barilla :: Barilla (n.) Impure soda obtained from the ashes of any seashore plant, or kelp..
Ashen :: Ashen (a.) Consisting of, or resembling, ashes; of a color between brown and gray, or white and gray..
Ashes :: Ashes (n. pl.) Specifically: The remains of the human body when burnt, or when returned to dust by natural decay..
Inurn :: Inurn (v. t.) To put in an urn, as the ashes of the dead; hence, to bury; to intomb..
Masher :: Masher (n.) One who, or that which, mashes; also (Brewing), a machine for making mash..
Dump :: Dump (n.) A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc..
Sash :: Sash (v. t.) To furnish with a sash or sashes; as, to sash a door or a window..
Riddle :: Riddle (n.) A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand..
Vine :: Vine (n.) Hence, a climbing or trailing plant; the long, slender stem of any plant that trails on the ground, or climbs by winding round a fixed object, or by seizing anything with its tendrils, or claspers; a creeper; as, the hop vine; the bean vine; the vines of melons, squashes, pumpkins, and other cucurbitaceous plants..
Roast :: Roast (v. t.) To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.; as, to roast a potato in ashes..
Screenings :: Screenings (n. pl.) The refuse left after screening sand, coal, ashes, etc..
Bake :: Bake (v. i.) To do the work of baking something; as, she brews, washes, and bakes..
Repentant :: Repentant (a.) Expressing or showing sorrow for sin; as, repentant tears; repentant ashes..
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