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Splashy :: Splasher (n.) A guard to keep off splashes from anything.

Ashy :: Ashy (a.) Pertaining to, or composed of, ashes; filled, or strewed with, ashes..

Deplumation :: Deplumation (n.) A disease of the eyelids, attended with loss of the eyelashes..

Cineraceous :: Cineraceous (a.) Like ashes; ash-colored; cinereous.

Leach :: Leach (n.) A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali..

Kelp :: Kelp (n.) The calcined ashes of seaweed, -- formerly much used in the manufacture of glass, now used in the manufacture of iodine..

Lash :: Lash (v. t.) To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash; as, a whale lashes the sea with his tail..

Ash Wednesday :: Ash Wednesday () 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..

Wash :: Wash (n.) A piece of ground washed by the action of a sea or river, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh; a fen; as, the washes in Lincolnshire..

Ash :: Ash (n.) sing. of Ashes.

Lye :: Lye (n.) A strong caustic alkaline solution of potassium salts, obtained by leaching wood ashes. It is much used in making soap, etc..

Dump :: Dump (n.) A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc..

Ashes :: Ashes (n. pl.) The color of ashes; deathlike paleness.

Spodomantic :: Spodomancy (n.) Divination by means of ashes.

Inurn :: Inurn (v. t.) To put in an urn, as the ashes of the dead; hence, to bury; to intomb..

Phenix :: Phenix (n.) A bird fabled to exist single, to be consumed by fire by its own act, and to rise again from its ashes. Hence, an emblem of immortality..

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..

Breeze :: Breeze (n.) Refuse coal, coal ashes, and cinders, used in the burning of bricks..

Cinefaction :: Cinefaction (n.) Cineration; reduction to ashes.

Flash :: Flash (v. t.) To send out in flashes; to cause to burst forth with sudden flame or light.

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