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birch
English
Etymology
From Middle English birche, birk, from Old English bir?e, bier?e, from Proto-West Germanic *birkij?, from Proto-Germanic *birkij?, from Proto-Indo-European *b?erH?os.
Pronunciation
- (General American) enPR: bû(r)ch, IPA(key): /b?t?/
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bû(r)ch, IPA(key): /b??t?/
- Rhymes: -??(?)t?
Noun
birch (countable and uncountable, plural birches)
- Any of various trees of the genus Betula, native to countries in the Northern Hemisphere.
- A hard wood taken from the birch tree, typically used to make furniture.
- A stick, rod or bundle of twigs made from birch wood, used for punishment.
- A birch-bark canoe.
Synonyms
- (stick, rod or bundle of twigs): makepeace, switch
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
birch (third-person singular simple present birches, present participle birching, simple past and past participle birched)
- to punish with a stick, bundle of twigs, or rod made of birch wood.
- to punish as though one were using a stick, bundle of twigs, or rod made of birch wood.
Derived terms
- bircher
Translations
Middle English
Noun
birch
- Alternative form of birche
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ash
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: ?sh, IPA(key): /æ?/
- Rhymes: -æ?
Etymology 1
From Middle English asshe, from Old English æs?e, from Proto-West Germanic *ask?, from Proto-Germanic *ask? (compare West Frisian jiske, Dutch as, Low German Asch, German Asche, Danish aske, Swedish aska, Norwegian ask), from Proto-Indo-European *h?eHs-; see it for cognates.
The rare plural axen is from Middle English axen, axnen, from Old English axan, as?an (“ashes”) (plural of Old English axe, æs?e (“ash”)).
Noun
ash (countable and uncountable, plural ashes)
- The solid remains of a fire.
- (chemistry) The nonaqueous remains of a material subjected to any complete oxidation process.
- Fine particles from a volcano, volcanic ash.
- (in the plural) Human (or animal) remains after cremation.
- (figuratively) What remains after a catastrophe.
- A gray colour, like that of ash.
Synonyms
- (cremation remains): cremains
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
ash (third-person singular simple present ashes, present participle ashing, simple past and past participle ashed)
- (chemistry) To reduce to a residue of ash. See ashing.
- 1919, Harry Gordon, Total Soluble and Insoluble Ash in Leather, published in the Journal of the American Leather Chemists Association, W. K. Alsop and W. A. Fox, eds, volume XIV, number 1, on page 253
- 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 […]
- 1981, Hans Weill, Margaret Turner-Warwick, and Claude Lenfant, eds, Occupational Lung Diseases: Research Approaches and Methods, Lung Biology in Health and disease, volume 18, page 203
- The inorganic material left after ashing lung tissue specimens not only contains inhaled particles but also very large quantities of inorganic residue derived from the tissue itself.
- 1989?, Annals of Botany, volume 64, issues 4-6, page 397
- Ash and silica contents of the plant material were determined by classical gravimetric techniques. Tissue samples were ashed in platinum crucibles at about 500 °C, and the ash was treated repeatedly with 6 N hydrochloric acid to remove other mineral impurities.
- 2010, S. Suzanne Nielsen, ed, Food Analysis, fourth edition, ?ISBN, Chapter 12, "Traditional Methods for Mineral Analysis", page 213
- A 10-g food sample was dried, then ashed, and analyzed for salt (NaCl) content by the Mohr titration method (AgNO3 + Cl ? AgCl). The weight of the dried sample was 2g, and the ashed sample weight was 0.5g.
- 1919, Harry Gordon, Total Soluble and Insoluble Ash in Leather, published in the Journal of the American Leather Chemists Association, W. K. Alsop and W. A. Fox, eds, volume XIV, number 1, on page 253
- (intransitive) To hit the end off of a burning cigar or cigarette.
- (transitive) To hit the end off (a burning cigar or cigarette).
- (obsolete, mostly used in the passive) To cover newly-sown fields of crops with ashes.
- 1847, H., Ashes on Corn.---An Experiment, published in the Genesee Farmer, volume 8, page 281
- 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, […]
- 1849, in a letter to James Higgins, published in 1850 in The American Farmer, volume V, number 7, pages 227-8
- After the corn was planted, upon acre A, I spread broadcast one hundred bushels of lime, (cost $3) and fifty bushels of ashes, (cost $6.) […] The extra crop of the combination over the limed acre or ashed, was paid by the increased crop, […]
- 1847, H., Ashes on Corn.---An Experiment, published in the Genesee Farmer, volume 8, page 281
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English asshe, from Old English æs?, from Proto-Germanic *askaz, *askiz (compare West Frisian esk, Dutch es, German Esche, Danish/Norwegian/Swedish ask), from Proto-Indo-European *Heh?s- (compare Welsh onnen, Latin ornus (“wild mountain ash”), Lithuanian úosis, Russian ?????? (jásen?), Albanian ah (“beech”), Ancient Greek ???? (oxúa, “beech”), Old Armenian ???? (hac?i)).
Noun
ash (countable and uncountable, plural ashes)
- (countable, uncountable) A shade tree of the genus Fraxinus.
- (uncountable) The wood of this tree.
- The traditional name for the ae ligature (æ), as used in Old English.
Synonyms
- (tree): ash tree
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- Yggdrasil
References
- Fraxinus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Fraxinus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Fraxinus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Anagrams
- AHS, Ahs, Hsa., SHA, ahs, has, sha, šâh, š?h
Middle English
Noun
ash
- Alternative form of asshe (“burnt matter”)
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