Ash is used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound term; as, ash bud, ash wood, ash tree, etc.
Ash, n., sing. of Ashes.
Ash is rarely used in the singular except in connection with chemical or geological products; as, soda ash, coal which yields a red ash, etc., or as a qualifying or combining word; as, ash bin, ash heap, ash hole, ash pan, ash pit, ash-grey, ash-colored, pearlash, potash.
Bone ash, burnt powered; bone earth. -- Volcanic ash. See under Ashes.
Ash, v. t. To strew or sprinkle with ashes. Howell.
A*shame (&?;), v. t. [Pref. a- + shame: cf. AS. scamian to shame (where - is the same as Goth. us-, G. er-, and orig. meant out), gescamian, gesceamian, to shame.] To shame. [R.] Barrow.
A*shamed" (&?;), a. [Orig. a p. p. of ashame, v. t.] Affected by shame; abashed or confused by guilt, or a conviction or consciousness of some wrong action or impropriety. "I am ashamed to beg." Wyclif.
All that forsake thee shall be ashamed.
Jer. xvii. 13.
I began to be ashamed of sitting idle.
Johnson.
Enough to make us ashamed of our species.
Macaulay.
An ashamed person can hardly endure to meet the gaze of those present.
Darwin.
Ashamed seldom precedes the noun or pronoun it qualifies. By a Hebraism, it is sometimes used in the Bible to mean disappointed, or defeated.