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Definition of Ashen
1. Adjective. Anemic looking from illness or emotion. "A face white with rage"
Similar to: Colorless, Colourless
Derivative terms: Lividity, Lividness
2. Adjective. Made of wood of the ash tree.
Definition of Ashen
1. a. Of or pertaining to the ash tree.
2. a. Consisting of, or resembling, ashes; of a color between brown and gray, or white and gray.
3. n. obs. pl. for Ashes.
Definition of Ashen
1. Adjective. Made from the wood of the ash tree. ¹
2. Adjective. Of or resembling ashes. ¹
3. Adjective. Ash-colored; pale; anemic. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ashen
1. consisting of ashes [adj]
Medical Definition of Ashen
1. Of or pertaining to the ash tree. See: Ash, the tree. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ashen
Literary usage of Ashen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... that he like was to behold The boi-tree, or the ashen ded and cold. ...
and pale as ashen cold, And solitary he was, and ever alone, And wailing all the ..."
2. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"Back to his comrades Helenus, withdrew Fleeing from Fate, but at his side the
hand Droop'd, trailing at his feet the ashen spear ; Till brave Agenor drew ..."
3. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"Eng.), ashen, ash-colored, pearly, leaden, lead-colored, cloudy, clouded, misty,
foggy, perse (archaic), pearled, leady, frosty, ..."
4. Memoirs of the Late Thomas Holcroft by Thomas Holcroft, William Hazlitt (1816)
"sleep happen to overcome him, some lad will take one of those tough ashen plants
with which they ride, and measuring his aim, strike him with all his force, ..."
5. The Farmer's Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Technical Terms Recently by Daniel Pereira Gardner (1854)
"... having the prongs twenty inches long, and a strong ashen handle, twenty feet
long, fixed firmly into it« bright red colour, the effect of burning the ..."
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