also 4 (esscen), aisshen, 5–6 asshen, 6 aschyn. [f. ASH sb.1 + -EN.]
1. Of or pertaining to an ash-tree. (Cf. ASPEN.)
1562. Turner, Herbal, II. 6 b. The iuice … of ashen leaues … is good to make fatte men leane.
c. 1595. Norden, Spec. Brit., Cornw. (1728), 34. Penwith signifieth the head of ashen trees.
1675. Hobbes, Homer, 188. A goodly ashen tree.
1741. Compl. Fam. Piece, i. iii. 217. Put the Ashen Keys into the Pickle.
1850. Tennyson, In Mem., cxv. By ashen roots the violets blow.
2. Made of the wood of the ash.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 5614. An esscen [? rescen] kyst sco did be wroght.
c. 1450. Merlin, vii. 117. Arthur … griped a grete aisshen spere.
c. 1525. Skelton, Vox Pop. Vox Dei, 253, in Hazl., E. P. P., III. 277. Thay that of latt did supe Owtt of an aschyn cuppe.
1815. Scott, Ld. Isles, IV. ix. Each his ashen bow unbent.
