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Etymology 1

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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).

Adjective

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ashen (comparative more ashen, superlative most ashen)

  1. Made from the wood of the ash-tree.
    An ashen bow and quiver of arrows beside.
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Etymology 2

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

Adjective

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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.
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Etymology 3

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From ash +‎ -en (verbal suffix).

Verb

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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

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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ashen

  1. ashes[2]
    Synonym: ameal

References

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  1. ^ Diarmaid Ó Muirithe (1990) “A Modern Glossary of the Dialect of Forth and Bargy”, in lrish University Review[1], volume 20, number 1, Edinburgh University Press, page 154
  2. ^ 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