Associations to the word «Ashen»

Wiktionary

ASHEN, adjective. Made from the wood of the ash-tree.
ASHEN, adjective. Of or resembling ashes.
ASHEN, adjective. Ash-colored; pale; anemic.

Dictionary definition

ASHEN, adjective. 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".
ASHEN, adjective. Made of wood of the ash tree.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats