Turn on a gas grill to medium or light a charcoal grill and let the coals burn until medium-hot and covered with white ash.
This form is the prevailing type of white ash in Wayne County in the vicinity of Centerville.
The uses of white ash are so numerous that they can be presented only in classes.
In Bartholomew County it was found associated with the cow oak, and the trunk resembled the white ash.
Fred studied the white ash of his cigarette before he flicked it off.
It is commonly associated with the white ash, but much less frequent except in a few districts where it is the prevailing type.
The wood is similar to that of the white ash, but is not quite so tough.
The white ash has a much fleecier foliage than that of the black, because each leaflet has a stem of its own.
The fire has again buried itself in white ash and ceased to glow.
To-night, however, he did not sleep, but sat and watched the glow of the embers slowly fade beneath a coat of white ash.
"powdery remains of fire," Old English æsce "ash," from Proto-Germanic *askon (cf. Old Norse and Swedish aska, Old High German asca, German asche, Gothic azgo "ashes"), from PIE root *as- "to burn, glow" (cf. Sanskrit asah "ashes, dust," Armenian azazem "I dry up," Greek azein "to dry up, parch," Latin ardus "parched, dry"). Spanish and Portuguese ascua "red-hot coal" are Germanic loan-words.
Symbol of grief or repentance; hence Ash Wednesday (c.1300), from custom introduced by Pope Gregory the Great of sprinkling ashes on the heads of penitents on the first day of Lent. Ashes meaning "mortal remains of a person" is late 13c., in reference to the ancient custom of cremation.
type of tree, Old English æsc "ash tree," also "spear made of ash wood," from Proto-Germanic *askaz, *askiz (cf. Old Norse askr, Old Saxon ask, Middle Dutch esce, German Esche), from PIE root *os- "ash tree" (cf. Armenian haci "ash tree," Albanian ah "beech," Greek oxya "beech," Latin ornus "wild mountain ash," Russian jasen, Lithuanian uosis "ash"). Ash was the preferred wood for spear-shafts, so Old English æsc sometimes meant "spear" (cf. æsc-here "company armed with spears").
(Heb. o'ren, "tremulous"), mentioned only Isa. 44:14 (R.V., "fir tree"). It is rendered "pine tree" both in the LXX. and Vulgate versions. There is a tree called by the Arabs _aran_, found still in the valleys of Arabia Petraea, whose leaf resembles that of the mountain ash. This may be the tree meant. Our ash tree is not known in Syria.