(a.) Pertaining to, or composed of, ashes; filled, or strewed with, ashes.
(a.) Ash-colored; whitish gray; deadly pale.
Example Sentences:
(1) Take stevia – nutritionist Amanda Ashy-Boyd describes this once-wonder ingredient: "It's supposed to be a natural substitute for sugar, but it's not so natural in the sense that it probably goes through multiple chemical processes to be able to add it to the food."
(2) The fire also burned two vehicles and a US Forest Service garage and sent an enormous ashy plume over the mountains.
(3) During the period between january 1984 to july 1987 in the Hospital Unit "Presidente Juárez" ISSSTE, Oaxaca (Mexico), for the first time was given dermatology consult to 2,683 patients among them, 23 who had ashy dermatosis (Erithema dyschromicum perstans), a study was done for the present time and the future of the same, discarding it as possible cause of that nosological entity: treponemal disease, parasitic, infectious, hepatic and renal.
(4) Ashy deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) were first discovered about 1960 in a wild population from Oregon.
(5) It is commented in relation with the ashy dermatosis and lichen planus, the clinicals variants and the possible sun etiology.
(6) The typical clinical characteristic of the ashy dermatitis is the fact that in case of light colored skin, the grey colour remains invariable.
(7) The lesions of lichen planus were atypical and the ashy dermatosis was transient.
(8) Data from seven beef steer trials were compiled and regression analyses used to evaluate relationships among molar proportions of acetate (Ac), propionate (Pr) and butyrate (Bu), total concentration of volatile fatty acids (VFA), rumen ammonia (NH3), rumen pH, rumen fluid dilution rate (FDR), rumen fluid volume (FVOL), body weight (WT), dry matter intake (DMI) and dietary concentration and intake of crude protein (CP and CPI), acid detergent fiber (ADF and ADFI), ash (ASH and ASHI) and metabolizable energy (ME and MEI).
(9) When FDR was described by dietary characteristics, ASHI was positively related to FDR (R2 = .16).
(10) As outlined in this article, the most common cosmetics problems encountered by black consumers include the lack of selection of appropriate shades of cosmetics; greasy and irritating "black" make-up; irritant or allergic reactions to fragrance and other cosmetic ingredients; acne from "oil-free" products; and a shortage of effective products to treat "ashiness."
(11) We describe the case of a 41 year old man presenting a relapsing dermatitis consisting of erythematous patches leaving behind ashy-gray macules.
(12) The clinical and histopathologic characteristics of patients with ashy dermatosis (n = 20) and lichen planus pigmentosus (n = 11) were analyzed.
(13) Volcanic blasts too can be added to the portfolio of postglacial geological pandemonium; the warming climate being greeted by an unprecedented fiery outburst that wracked Iceland as its frozen carapace dwindled, and against which the recent ashy ejaculation from the island's most unpronounceable volcano pales.
(14) The ashy deer mouse model may be useful for further study of melanocyte function.
(15) Automation of the fluorescent method required a calculation that converts electronic data to an ASHI score for cell death.
(16) The colors of lesions found were white (83%), brown (7%), pink (6%) and ashy (4%).
(17) to put out grimy paparazzi shots annotated with rings of doom pointing out a hormonal spot breakout, or ashy heels when you can release a 'real'-enough (ie candid but still uber-flattering) photo of yourself just chilling with the family?
(18) Most of Hakone falls within a volcanically active national park centring on Lake Ashi, and the area is packed with public bath houses and ryokan (inns), many of which open their doors to day bathers.
(19) Ashy skin.” White sediment on the surface of brown skin that has gone unoiled for too long.
(20) The authors make a review of the epidemiologic, etiopathogenic, clinical, laboratory and therapeutic aspects of ashy dermatosis, described in 1957 by Ramírez in El Salvador, of which more than 150 cases have been described up to now in different continents.
(a.) Not firm or hardy; liable to sweat profusely with labor; as, a washy horse.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's a little sweetly, wishy-washy in the body, but, for a beer of its ilk, it has a real thirst-quenching bitterness to it.
(2) To be fair, Clinton has strengthened her wishy-washy language about protecting Social Security somewhat since early in her campaign (after being pressed on it by Bernie Sanders during the Democratic debates).
(3) But even that stance is considerably harder than the threats (many wishy-washy) from oil companies to reduce investment in the North Sea.
(4) The SASAWASHI Company in Japan started as a joint venture with Dr Mitsuo Kimura of Mie University, who originally conducted research on how to make washi out of kumazasa.
(5) Life becomes a series of stuttering noises stretching into eternity, punctuated only by interruptions for someone to complain about the “chunkiness” or “creaminess” or “washiness” or whatever-ness of a fly’s buzz.
(6) Noises were described as “washy”, “pingy”, “chunky”, “spongy”, “roomy”, “blatty” and “futzy”.
(7) It also seems wishy-washy nonsense to the archbishop.
(8) After Obama's wishy-washy defence of Muslim Americans' freedom to build a community centre, which includes a mosque, two blocks away from Ground Zero, a poll from the Pew Research Centre reveals that nearly 20% of Americans – up from 11% a year ago – consider him a Muslim, and nearly 43% are unsure of his religion.
(9) In an era of such change, this is not wishy-washy utopianism: it is the hardest of hard-headed realism.
(10) My socialism, imbibed with my mother’s milk and my father’s ruminations, was at once of the same slightly wishy-washy oppositional character suggested by Amis’s remark, and wreathed about by rather more dangerously seductive visions of the wholesale transformation of the social order by whatever means necessary.
(11) Photograph: SASAWASHI Co., Ltd. Sasawashi For over 1,400 years, Japanese artisans have been making traditional paper called washi , which is made from the fibres of plants and trees.
(12) A wishy-washy compromise was not going to win them votes.
(13) I don’t think this is a wishy-washy alternative to academic achievement.
(14) Some of our LGBT performers have to deal with wishy-washy audiences of pseudo-hipster techie types.
(15) 9.38pm GMT The rhetoric is getting all the more washy and the evening nears it's close.
(16) And no, this is not coming from the lips of a wishy-washy progressive teacher spawned by Gove’s “blob”, but is an integral part of the national development of a country right at the top of those international league tables we aspire to emulate.
(17) Richardson said the IPCC report was "wishy-washy" on issues such as sea level rise.
(18) It sounds tough, determined, unlike the wishy-washy “soft Brexit”.
(19) Video of the encounter , repeatedly aired on television, shows the 79-year-old emperor calmly taking the letter, written on a folded "washi" paper with ink and brush, and briefly talking with Yamamoto.
(20) When Falcao’s number was up in that last game at Old Trafford against Arsenal , he walked towards the substitutes’ bench after another wishy-washy display and raised his hand with an almost apologetic wave to the crowd.