Word Finder - ashes

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The solid remains of a fire.

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Ash from a fireplace can restore minerals to your garden's soil.

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The nonaqueous remains of a material subjected to any complete oxidation process.

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Fine particles from a volcano, volcanic ash.

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(in the plural) Human (or animal) remains after cremation.

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The urn containing his ashes was eventually removed to a closet.

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What remains after a catastrophe.

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A gray colour, like that of ash.

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To reduce to a residue of ash. See ashing.

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To hit the end off of a burning cigar or cigarette.

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To hit the end off (a burning cigar or cigarette).

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(mostly used in the passive) To cover newly-sown fields of crops with ashes.

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A shade tree of the genus Fraxinus.

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The ash trees are dying off due to emerald ash borer.

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The wood of this tree.

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The traditional name for the ae ligature (æ), as used in Old English.

Dad wanted me to bury his ashes here too.

The book's fate was to burn until not even ashes remained!

The vessels contained a dark dust, apparently disintegrated ashes, small pieces of bone, and a number of small pieces of jewelry in gold, silver, white and red cornelian, amethyst, topaz, garnet, coral and crystal.

The ashes had long since stopped burning, and the air was still filled with magic.

Megan tossed the ashes, tray and all, into the trash can beside her desk.

The account of the death and cremation of the Buddha, preserved in the Buddhist canon, states that one-eighth portion of the ashes was presented to the Sakiya clan, and that they built a thupa, or memorial mound, over it.'

Ashes and dirt sullied his uniform and made him sneeze.

She and her father had buried Mom's ashes there, and then after he died, Josh had helped her bury his ashes there too.

And we need have no hesitation in accepting this as a monument put up over a portion of the ashes from the funeral pyre of Gotama the Buddha.

Of the carbon dioxide and ammonia no exhaustion can take place, but of the mineral constitutents the supply is limited because the soil cannot afford an indefinite amount of them; hence the chief care of the farmer, and the function of manures, is to restore to the soil those minerals which each crop is found, by the analysis of its ashes, to take up in its growth.

Russia will shudder to learn of the abandonment of the city in which her greatness is centered and in which lie the ashes of your ancestors!

The guardsman lowered his gaze to the ashes as he began digging in earnest.

The copper tray hit the bottom of the can with a loud clatter, spewing ashes into the stale office air.

I felt the hot breath from the engine on my face, and the smoke and ashes almost choked us.

As I drew a still fresher soil about the rows with my hoe, I disturbed the ashes of unchronicled nations who in primeval years lived under these heavens, and their small implements of war and hunting were brought to the light of this modern day.

The acrid smell of cigarette ashes burned her nose and brought tears to her eyes.

In a natural state it is obtained from bones, guano and wood ashes; and in an artificial condition from basic slag or Thomas's phosphate, coprolites and superphosphate of lime.

To do this deftly, the hands should be plunged from time to time in dry ashes, to prevent the clay from sticking to them.

Two others are proclamations commemorating visits paid by the king, one to the dome erected over the ashes of Konagamana, the Buddha, another to the birthplace of Gotama, the Buddha.

John Lennon was cremated, and his ashes were given to his wife, Yoko Ono.

After Mom died, Dad and I put a marker here for her and buried her ashes here.

The building had been burnt to the ground, and the guardsman began the process of sifting through the ashes.

The salient event of Bela's reign was the terrible Tatar invasion which reduced three-quarters of Hungary to ashes.

The ground is to be pared and burnt, and unslacked lime must be added to the ashes.

The manufacture of glass, also practised in Egypt, demanded a knowledge of sodium or potassium carbonates; the former occurs as an efflorescence on the shores of certain lakes; the latter was obtained from wood ashes.

The lavas and ashes ejected by these volcanoes consist of liparite, dacite, andesite and basalt.

The composition of the ashes of different coals is subject to considerable variation, as will be seen by Table II.

In the rite of death-bed penance given in the old Mozarabic Christian ritual of Spain, ashes were poured over the sick man.

The Polish princes opposed a valiant but ineffectual resistance; the towns of Sandomir and Cracow were reduced to ashes, and all who were able fled to the mountains of Hungary or the forests of Moravia.

In fact, the ashes of herbs generally are richer in potash than those of the trunks and branches of trees; yet, for obvious reasons, the latter are of greater industrial importance as sources of potassium carbonate.

The purified carbonate (which still contains most of the chloride of the raw material and other impurities) is known as "pearl ashes."

But by far the most important of the Tertiary rocks are the volcanic lavas, agglomerates and ashes, which cover so much of the country.

Maize or Indian corn was cultivated on patches of ground where, as in the Hindu jam, the trees and bushes were burnt and the seed planted in the soil manured by the ashes.

Streams of rainwater, formed by condensation of exhaled steam often mingled with volcanic ashes so as to produce mud, are known as lava d'acqua, whilst the streams of molten matter are called lava di fuoco.

Iodine is obtained either from kelp (the ashes of burnt seaweed) or from the mother-liquors obtained in the purification of Chile saltpetre.

The haulm and husks are either used for litter or burned, and the ashes spread upon the land.

Its growth is greatly stimulated by the ashes resulting from the practice of paring and burning.

The altar of Zeus consists of a great mound of ashes with a retaining wall.

There is a portrait of her in the Capitoline Museum at Rome, and a bronze medal in the British Museum representing the bringing back of her ashes to Rome by order of Caligula.

According to an account of the natives, a violent eruption of Kilauea occurred in 1789, or about that time, and deposits of volcanic sand, large stones, sponge-like scoria (pumice) and ashes for miles around are evidence of such an eruption.

The objection raised by the Aquitanian presbyter Vigilantius (c. 400) to the belief that the souls of the martyrs to a certain extent clung to their ashes, and heard the prayers of those who approached them, appeared to his contemporaries to be frivolous;.

The custom, which is ultimately based on the penance of "sackcloth and ashes" spoken of by the prophets of the Old Testament, has been dropped in those of the reformed Churches which still observe the fast; but it is retained in the Roman Catholic Church, the day being known as dies cinerum (day of ashes) or dies cineris et cilicii (day of ash and sackcloth).

The ashes, obtained by burning the palms or their substitutes used in the ceremonial of the previous Palm Sunday, are placed in a vessel on the altar before High Mass.

After another prayer the ashes are thrice sprinkled with holy water and thrice censed.

In the American Prayer Book the office of Commination is omitted, with the exception of the three concluding prayers, which are derived from the prayers and anthems said or sung during the blessing and distribution of the ashes according to the Sarum Missal.

If his bellows had only a single opening, that through which they delivered the blast upon the fire, then in inflating them he would draw back into them the hot air and ashes from the fire.

Whole towns and villages were laid in ashes, and vast districts turned into deserts.

This was burnt mouth-down in the oven., and the ashes on the ground reduced the red haematite to black magnetic oxide of iron; some traces of carbonyl in the ash helped to rearrange the magnetite as a brilliant mirror-like surface of intense black.

Vessels of clay, more or less ornate in character, which occur with these early interments of unburnt bodies, have been regarded as food-vessels and drinking-cups, differing in character and purpose from the cinerary urns of larger size in which the ashes of the dead were deposited after cremation.

The chamber, no longer regarded as a habitation to be tenanted by the deceased, became simply a cist for the reception of the urn which held his ashes.