English Dictionary

ash

/æʃ/

verb

(chemistry) To reduce to a residue of ash. See ashing. / (intransitive) To hit the end off of a burning cigar or cigarette. / (transitive) To hit the end off (a burning cigar or cigarette).

He ashed his cigarette into the ashtray.

意味（1）

(chemistry) To reduce to a residue of ash. See ashing.

I dried the extracted leather very slowly on the steam bath […] until the substance was dry enough to ash. […] I think that the discrepancy in the percentages of total ash by method No. 2 and No. 6 is due to this excessive heat required to ash the leather […]

意味（2）

(intransitive) To hit the end off of a burning cigar or cigarette.

意味（3）

(transitive) To hit the end off (a burning cigar or cigarette).

Nonsense, Mrs. Gardiner challenged, ashing her cigarette.

意味（4）

(obsolete, mostly used in the passive) To cover newly-sown fields of crops with ashes.

Last spring, after I planted, I took what ashes I have saved during the last year, and put on my corn […] . On harvesting I cut up the two rows which were not ashed (or twenty rods of them,) and set them apart from the others in stouts; and then I cut up two rows of the same length, on each side, which had been ashed, […]