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English Dictionary: Ashen by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ashen
adj
  1. anemic looking from illness or emotion; "a face turned ashen"; "the invalid's blanched cheeks"; "tried to speak with bloodless lips"; "a face livid with shock"; "lips...livid with the hue of death"- Mary W. Shelley; "lips white with terror"; "a face white with rage"
    Synonym(s): ashen, blanched, bloodless, livid, white
  2. made of wood of the ash tree
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ashen \Ash"en\, a. [See {Ash}, the tree.]
      Of or pertaining to the ash tree. [bd]Ashen poles.[b8]
      --Dryden.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ashen \Ash"en\, a.
      Consisting of, or resembling, ashes; of a color between brown
      and gray, or white and gray.
  
               The ashen hue of age.                              --Sir W.
                                                                              Scott.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ashen \Ash"en\, n.,
      obs. pl. for {Ashes}. --Chaucer.
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