ASHEN
\ˈaʃən], \ˈaʃən], \ˈa_ʃ_ə_n]\
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ash-colored or 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"
By Princeton University
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Of or pertaining to the ash tree.
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Consisting of, or resembling, ashes; of a color between brown and gray, or white and gray.
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obs. pl. for Ashes.
By Oddity Software
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Of or pertaining to the ash tree.
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Consisting of, or resembling, ashes; of a color between brown and gray, or white and gray.
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obs. pl. for Ashes.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By James Champlin Fernald
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