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To burn; to reduce to ashes by the action of fire, either directly or in an oven or retort; to incremate or incinerate; as, to cremate a corpse, instead of burying it.

One who, or that which, cremmates or consumes to ashes.

Bread cut in various forms, and fried lightly in butter or oil, to garnish hashes, etc.

A shallow porus cup, used in refining precious metals, commonly made of bone ashes (phosphate of lime). [Written also coppel.] Cupel dust, powder used in purifying metals.

uction, a long or significant pause, or an unexpected or epigrammatic turn of sentiment. Dashes are also sometimes used instead of marks or parenthesis. John Wilson.

That which dashes or agitates; as, the dasher of a churn.

A disease of the eyelids, attended with loss of the eyelashes. Thomas.

One who, or that which, washes dishes.

time (Mil.). Same as Double-quick. -- Double window, a window having two sets of glazed sashes with an air space between them.

Having both sashes hung with weights and cords; -- said of a window.

A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.

ed in placer mining; -- often used as money, being transferred by weight. -- In dust and ashes. See under Ashes. -- To bite the dust. See under Bite, v. t. -- To raise, or kick up, dust, to make a commotion. [Colloq.] -- To throw dust in one's eyes, to mislead; to deceive. [Colloq.]

Eyelids or eyelashes. And closing eaves of wearied eyes. Tennyson. Eaves board (Arch.), an arris fillet, or a thick board with a feather edge, nailed across the rafters at the eaves of a building, to raise the lower course of slates a little, or to receive the lowest course of tiles; -- called also eaves catch and eave…

A fancied perception of flashes of light, a symptom of epilepsy; hence, epilepsy itself; convulsions.

The act of ejecting or casting out; discharge; expulsion; evacuation. "Vast ejection of ashes." Eustace. "The ejection of a word." Johnson.

A lighted coal, smoldering amid ashes; -- used chiefly in the plural, to signify mingled coals and ashes; the smoldering remains of a fire. "He rakes hot embers." Dryden. He takes a lighted ember out of the covered vessel. Colebrooke.

Of or pertaining to ashes. [Obs.] Light and favollous particles. Sir T. Browne.

t or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed.

One who, or that which, flashes.

Frozen dew; -- called also hoarfrost or white frost. He scattereth the frost like ashes. Ps. cxlvii. 16.