Definition of "ashy"

Still is he sullein, still he lowres and frets,Twixt crimson shame, and anger ashie pale,The spelling has been modernized.

1593, 1896

Tell her that sicknesse, with her ashie hand,Hath swept away the beauty from my cheekes,

1634 (first performance), Thomas Heywood, Loves Maistresse: Or, The Queens Masque. […], London: […] Robert Raworth, for Iohn Crowch; and are to bee sold by Iasper Emery, […], published 1636, Act IIII

Again the operation; again the narcotic; again some return of colour to the ashy cheeks, and the regular breathing of healthy sleep.

1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 11, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, page 126

Beyond that black clot the sea lay, pale with last ashy gleam of day.

1968, Ursula K. Le Guin, chapter 7, in A Wizard of Earthsea, page 123

Ye heauenly spirites, whose ashie cinders lieVnder deep ruines, with huge walls opprest,

1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Ruines of Rome”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […]

[…] where yet the Embers glow,Wide o’er the Pyle the sable Wine they throw,And deep subsides the ashy Heap below.

1715–1720, Homer, [Alexander] Pope, transl., “Book 23”, in The Iliad of Homer, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], page 75

[…] I saw her sitting on the hearth in a ragged chair, close before, and lost in the contemplation of, the ashy fire.

1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter X, in Great Expectations […], volume III, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, page 151

He lit the paper until it burned to an ashy film.

1991, Edwidge Danticat, “A Wall of Fire Rising”, in Krik? Krak!, New York: Soho Press

It was summer and his pants were short, so the pickle juice made clean streams down his ashy legs […]

1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 4, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Random House, page 22

After passing it under her runny nose, a skinny chalk-colored girl raised a hand so disgustingly ashy, so white and dry-skinned, that it could only be black.

2015, Paul Beatty, chapter 11, in The Sellout‎, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 159