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an body when burnt, or when "returned to dust" by natural decay. Their martyred blood and ashes sow. Milton. The coffins were broken open. The ashes were scattered to the winds. Macaulay.

High boots or buskins; in Scotland, short spatterdashes or riding trousers, worn over the other clothing.

Gaiters reaching to the knee; leggings. Strong gramashes, or leggings of thick gray cloth. Sir W. Scott.

Potash. [Obs.]

Coverings for the legs, to protect them from water and mud; long gaiters.

management; outfit; (pl.) the accouterments of military officers or soldiers, as belts, sashes, swords. The cavaliers emulated their chief in the richness of their appointments. Prescott. I'll prove it in my shackles, with these hands Void of appoinment, that thou liest. Beau. & Fl.

Poison ash (Rhus venenata) are shrubs of different families, somewhat resembling the true ashes in their foliage. -- Mountain ash. See Roman tree, and under Mountain.

The first day of Lent; -- so called from a custom in the Roman Catholic church of putting ashes, on that day, upon the foreheads of penitents.

Of the color of ashes; a whitish gray or brownish gray.

Consisting of, or resembling, ashes; of a color between brown and gray, or white and gray. The ashen hue of age. Sir W. Scott.

A depository for ashes.

Pertaining to, or composed of, ashes; filled, or strewed with, ashes.

g, from fifteen to four and twenty inches in diameter and five feet long, imbedded in the ashes. S. G. Goodrich.

To do the work of baking something; as, she brews, washes, and bakes. Shak.

nks of. [Obs.] Shak. To bank a fire, To bank up a fire, to cover the coals or embers with ashes or cinders, thus keeping the fire low but alive.

s of Salsola from which soda is made, by burning the barilla in heaps and lixiviating the ashes.

A medium, as heated sand, ashes, steam, hot air, through which heat is applied to a body.

A mass or heap of anything arranged like a bed; as, a bed of ashes or coals.

Stocking hose, or spatterdashes, in lieu of boots. Shak.

Showery; characterized by brashes, or showers.