Word Meanings - ASHEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the ash tree. "Ashen poles." Dryden.

Related words: (words related to ASHEN)

• POLESTAR
  1. Polaris, or the north star. See North star, under North. 2. A guide or director.
• ASHEN
  Of or pertaining to the ash tree. "Ashen poles." Dryden.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• WASHEN
  p. p. of Wash. Chaucer.
• UNWASHEN
  Not washed. "To eat with unwashen hands." Matt. xv.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach