Ashanti (Ash`anti) , or Ashantee, a negro inland kingdom in the Upper Soudan, N. of Gold Coast territory, wooded, well watered, and well cultivated; natives intelligent, warlike, and skilful; twice over provoked a war with Great Britain, and finally the despatch of a military expedition, which led to the submission of the king and the appointment of a British Resident.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Ash, John * Ashburnham, John