Ash-Wédnes'day, n.
(-wĕnz'dĭ), n. The first day of Lent;—so called from a custom in the Roman Catholic church of sprinkling ashes, that day, on the heads of penitents, then admitted to penance.
(-wĕnz'dĭ), n. The first day of Lent;—so called from a custom in the Roman Catholic church of sprinkling ashes, that day, on the heads of penitents, then admitted to penance.