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Definition of Brown ash
1. Noun. Vigorous spreading North American tree having dark brown heavy wood; leaves turn gold in autumn.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brown Ash
Literary usage of Brown ash
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Ornithology, Or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States by Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, Robert Jameson, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington (1831)
"... tail, greatly pointed, the two middle tapering feathers being full five inches
longer than the others, and black, the rest, brown ash, edged with white; ..."
2. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1895)
"Combustion o! the carbon, made by carbonising the filter in a closed vessel, left
a trace of decidedly brown ash. During the whole period of combustion I ..."
3. The American Sportsman by Elisha Jarrett Lewis (1906)
"... tail greatly pointed, the two middle tapering feathers being full five inches
longer than the others, and black ; the rest brown-ash, edged with white; ..."
4. American Ornithology; Or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States. by Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, William Jardine (1832)
"... two middle tapering feathers being full five inches longer than the others,
and black, the rest, brown ash^ edged with white ; legs, a pale lead colour. ..."
5. Wild Fowl Shooting: Containing Scientific and Practical Descriptions of Wild by William Bruce Leffingwell (1888)
"... and black, the rest brown ash. edged with white ; legs, a pale lead color.
The female has crown of a dark brown color, neck of a dull brownish white, ..."
6. A history of British birds by Francis Orpen Morris (1852)
"Head on the sides, brown ash-colour, spotted with white; crown, dusky brown, with
markings of dull white, and darker and lighter yellow; neck and nape, ..."
7. History of the Lumber Industry of America by James Elliott Defebaugh (1907)
"... in the distribution and consumption of ash, our comments will be confined to
two species of the wood—white ash and brown ash; or, to use local phrases, ..."
8. Transactions by American Ethnological Society (1862)
"I believe that it is a general indication of the presence of iron in coal, when
it burns to a reddish or brown ash. This shows that the seam, ..."
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