ashen

• IPA^(key): /ˈæʃ.ən/

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• Rhymes: -æʃən

From Middle English asshen, aisshen, esscen, from Old English æsċen (“made of ashwood”), equivalent to ash +‎ -en (“made or consisting of”). Cognate with Scots aschin, eschin (“ashen”).

ashen (comparative more ashen, superlative most ashen)

1. Made from the wood of the ash-tree.

   An ashen bow and quiver of arrows beside.

From Middle English asshen, axen (“ash-colored; pale; lifeless”), equivalent to ash +‎ -en (“made or consisting of”).

ashen (comparative more ashen, superlative most ashen)

1. Of or resembling ashes.

   A fine, ashen dust hung in the air.

2. Ash-colored; pale; anemic

   His ashen face belied his claims of good health.

3. Appalled; upset.
4. Anaemic.

• ashy, cineraceous, cinereous
• (sickly pale): See also Thesaurus:pallid

• ashen-faced

From ash +‎ -en (verbal suffix).

ashen (third-person singular simple present ashens, present participle ashening, simple past and past participle ashened)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To turn into ash; make or become ashy
2. (transitive, intransitive) To make or become pale

• Ehsan, Haens, Hanes, Hanse, Sanhe, Shane, Shean, hanse, heans

• oaskean

From Middle English asshen, asken, from Old English æsċe, from Proto-West Germanic *askā, from Proto-Germanic *askǭ.

• IPA^(key): /aˈʃiːn/, /ɔːsˈkiːn/

ashen

1. ashes

   Synonym: ameal

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 23