Definition: ashen

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

ashen
     adj 1: 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" [syn: blanched, bloodless, livid,
             white]
     2: made of wood of the ash tree

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Ashen \Ash"en\, a. [See Ash, the tree.]
   Of or pertaining to the ash tree. ``Ashen poles.'' --Dryden.
Ashen \Ash"en\, a.
   Consisting of, or resembling, ashes; of a color between brown
   and gray, or white and gray.

         The ashen hue of age.                    --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
Ashen \Ash"en\, n.,
   obs. pl. for Ashes. --Chaucer.