ashl (ash)

and a. [ In spears, and is now largely used wherever these qualities are needed. In its younger state the tree is called ground ash, and a variety is well known in cultivation as weeping-ash. The flowering ash, F. Ornus, is a small tree of southern Europe, sometimes cultivated for ornament. It yields a saccharine exudation, which forms the best known and most important of the various kinds of manna. the United States several species of the genus are commonly known under the name, as the black ash, ground ash, or hoop-ash, F. sambucifolia; the blue ash, F. quad rangulata; the green ash, F. virid is; the red ash, F. pu bescens; the water-ash, F. platy carp a; and the white ash, F. American a. The last is the most valuable; its wood closely resembles that of the European ash, and is used for similar purposes. ( b ) The name (with some adjunct) of various trees or shrubs of other gen era, generally from some resemblance in foliage or qualities of the wood to the common ash. (See below.) (c) Also, in parts of England, the name of some herbaceous plants, chiefly umbelliferous, as the ground-ash, or ashweed, Ægo podium Podagra ria and Angelica sylvestris, and the sweet ash, Anthriscus sylvestris.-2. The wood of the ash-tree; hence, something made of ash, as the shaft of a lance or spear. My grained ash a hundred times hath broke. Shak ., Cor., iv. 5. Ash of Jerusalem, an old English name for woad or dyer's weed, Is at is tinct or i a and Reseda luteola. - Bitter ash, a West Indian name of the qua ia-tree, Picræna excels a. Cape ash, the Ekebergia capensis, a large meliaceous tree of southern Africa, furnishing valuable timber. Poison ash, the poison sumac, Rhus venenata. - Prickly ash, a name given to species of Xanthoxylum ( X. Ameri canum, X. Clava - Herculis, the latter also called sea - ash ). — Quaking ash, in Scotland, the aspen. - Red ash, of Australia, the Alp hit on i a excels a, a tall rhamnaceous tree with very hard wood. - Wild ash, an old English name for the mountain-ash.- Yellow ash, a leguminous tree of the United States, Clad rast is tinct or i a. See yellow - wood. (See also hoop - ash, mountain-ash, wafer - ash.) II. a . Pertaining to or like the ash; made of ash.