fresh 
Ther sholde ye bane sein many //v.vxA lusty men of armes 
vpoll strunge startcliiw stedis. 
M,-rlin(K. K. T. S.), iii. 385. 
A race of real children ; not too wise, 
Too learned, or too good ; but wanton, fresh, 
And bandied lip and duwn by li.vr and bate. 
wordfwvtk, 1'relude, v. 
3. In a refreshed condition; freshened; reinvig- 
orated; strengthened or purified: as, the troops 
were now fresh for action ; to put on fresh linen. 
I remember, when the tight as done, . . . 
Came there a certain lord, neat and trimly dress'd, 
fresh as a bridegr i. Shak., 1 Hen. IV., i. 3. 
Nay, [I] let him choose 
Out of my files, his projects to accomplish, 
My best and freshest men. Shot., Cor., v. 5. 
Brewer says to his driver, " Now is your horse pretty 
fresh' "... Driver says he's as fresh as butter. 
Dickens, .Mutual Friend, ii. 3. 
4. New; recent; novel; newly produced, ob- 
tained, occurring, arriving, etc. : as, coins fresh 
from the mint; afresh coat of paint; fresh ti- 
dings ; a fresh misfortune ; to take a fresh sheet 
of paper. 
My glory was/resA in me, and my bow was renewed in 
my hand. Job xxix. 20. 
But the Norweyan lord, surveying vantage, 
With furbish'd arms and new supplies of men, 
Began n fresh assault. Shak., Macbeth, I. 2. 
To-morrow to fresh woods and pastures new. 
Milton, Lycidas, 1. 193. 
In every liquid all the molecules are running about and 
continually changing and mixing themselves up in fresh 
forms. W. K. Clifford, Lectures, I. 195. 
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freshness 
is iii America, and as 3. Jiaut., to relieve, as a rope, by altering the 
rZrfth'rthSe POBition of a part exposed to frictiL.-To fresh- 
Trans. Amer. Philol. Ass., XIV. 48. 
5. The mingling of fresh water with salt in 
rivers or bays, or the increased current of an 
Hence -5. Unpractised; untried; iuexperi- W>-tide caused by a great volume of fresh wa- 
enced; unsophisticated: as, Afresh hand on a ter flowlng mto the 8ea ' 
ship; &fresh youth. 
How green you are, and fresh in this old world ! 
Shak., K.John, iii. 4. 
We that have skill must pronounce, ami not such/reA 
men as you are. tt. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, v. 2. 
It is not unusual to see girls in their third year attend- 
ing the same lectures with Freshmen. I say " Freshmen " 
because, although there is no class feeling, yet there is an 
undefined idea that new students must naturally be fresh, 
nineteenth Century, XXIV. 921. 
6. Cool; refreshing; invigorating; imparting 
strength or refreshment ; in nautical language, 
moderately strong or brisk: as, a draught of _.,., oul 
breeze ' * f "*' & *** fresht (fresh), t,. Afresh, .] 
fresh. 
Sir, we are all so happy as to have a fine, fresh, cool 
morning ; and I hope we shall each be the happier in the 
others' company. J. Walton, Complete Angler, p. 20. 
I'll cull the farthest mead for thy repast ; 
The choicest herbs I to thy board will bring, 
And draw thy water from the/r?0A<^ spring. 
Prior, Henry and Emma. 
And the shade of the beech lies cool on the rock, 
And/resA from the west is the free wind's breath. 
Bryant, Two Graves. 
During the first part of this day the wind was light, but 
after noon it came on fresh, and we furled the royals. 
K. U. Dana, Jr., Before the Mast. 
7. Not salt, salted, or pickled ; not brackish : 
as, fresh meat or codfish ; fresh water. 
So can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh. 
Jas. iii. 12. 
It is held one of the greatest rivers in An 
most men thinke, in the world : and con 
such Afresh, it maketh the Sea fresh ,. *.. .,; - 
miles from the shore. sn tie nawse. 
Quoted in Capt. John Smith's Works, II. 268. freshet (fresh'et), . [Prob. < OF. freschet, fre- 
It is called a fresh, when, after very great rains or (as diet, adj., fresh (applied, among other things, 
to a spring), dim. of fres, fem.fresche, fresh : see 
fresh, a., and cf. fresh, .] If. A small stream 
of fresh water ; a brook. 
Beyond the said mountaines towards the North, there 
is a most beautiful! wood growing on a plainc fill of foun- 
taines & freshets. Hakluyt's Voyages, I. 94. 
All fish, from sea or shore, 
Freshet or purling brook, of shell or fin. 
Hilton, P. R., ii. 345. 
2. A flood or overflowing of a river, by reason 
of heavy rains or melted snow ; an inundation, 
especially one of a comparatively moderate ex- 
tent: same &a fresh, n., 1. 
Between Salem and Charlestown is situated the town 
of Lynn, near to a river, whose strdiig freshet at the end 
of winter fllleth all her banks, and with a violent torrent 
vents itself into the sea. 
F. Gorges, Description of New England (1658), p. 29. 
Running up into the freshes with the ship or vessel freshly (fresh'li), adv. [< ME. frescMy, frcssh- 
during the five or six weeks that the worm is thus above ly ; < fresh + -Jtf 2 .] In a fresh manner; so as 
water ; for they never enter, nor do any damage in fresh ' ' ' 
water, or where it is not very salt. 
Severity, Virginia, ii. If 6. 
Fresh, used locally in Maryland for a stream distinct 
from the tide water : as, " Allen's Fresh." 
we suppose) after a great thaw of the snow ami ice lying 
upon the mountains to the westward, the water descends 
in Mich abundance into the rivers that they overflow the 
hanks which bound then* streams at other times. 
Beeerley, Virginia, iii. 1 34. 
2f. Figuratively, a flood or rush of persons. 
The /rathe was so felle of the furse grekes. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. 8.), 1. 4730. 
3. A spring or brook of fresh water; a small 
tributary stream. [Now only local.] 
He shall drink nought but brine ; for I'll not show him 
Where the quick/reA<? are. Shak., Tempest, iii. 2. 
In Virginia it means also " a small tributary of a larger 
river," and lieverley (History of Virginia) already men- 
tions "the freshes of Pawtomeck river." 
Trans. Amer. Philol. Ass., XIV. 49. 
4. A stream or current of fresh water running 
into tide-water. [Local.] 
to be fresh; anew; newly; recently. 
And swore, and hertely gnu her hete [promise] 
Euer to be stedfast and trew, 
And loue her alway/rA(y new. Isle of Ladies. 
Looks he as freshly as he did the day he wrestled ? 
Shalt., As you Like it, iii. 2. 
Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years : 
Vet freshly ran he on ten winters more. 
Dryden, (Edipus, iv. 2. 
freshman (fresh'man), n. and a. I. n. ; pi. 
ii l_-.Jiiiliil V.***- .ill'. It, ,1 II' It. J_, Ii. . [11. 
1'tie freshes, when they take their ordinarie course of freshmen (-men). If. A novice; one in the ru- 
ebbe, doe grow strong and swift, setting directly off to 
sea against the wind. Hakluyt's Voyages, III. 673. 
iges, 
6. Open weather ; a day of open weather ; a 
thaw. [Scotch.] 7. A freshman. [College 
slang.] 
fresh (fresh), adv. [< fresh, a.] Freshly. 
Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding/r*A, 
And sees fast by a butcher with an axe, 
But will suspect 'twas he that made the slaughter? 
Shak., 2 Hen. VI., iii. 2. 
Mrs. Can. She has a charming fresh colour. 
Lady T. Yes, when it isfreih put on. 
Sheridan, School for Scandal, ii. 2. 
I. trans. To re- 
I found helpe for my health, and my sieknesse asswaged, 
by the meanes of /reflA dyet, especially Oranges and Limons. 
Whan he was to that wel yeomen 
That shadowed was with hrauuches grene, 
He thoughte of thilke water shene 
To drinke, and fresshe him wel withalle. 
Rom. of the Rose, 1. 1513. 
I walkt unmade to breath thefrcihiny ayre 
In open fields, whose flowring pride, bpprest 
With early frosts, had lost their beauty faire. 
Spenser, Daphnalda, 1. 26. 
You \WL\'efreshed my memory well in 't, neighbour Pan. 
B. Jonson, Tale of a Tub, i. 2. 
II. intrans. To grow fresh ; freshen. 
About three in the afternoone the gale Iwgan to fresh. 
JJakluyt's Voyages, I. 450. 
fresh-blown (fresh'blon), a. Newly blown, as 
a flower. 
Beds of violets blue, 
And fresh-bloum roses wash'd in dew. 
of knowledge. 
'IAS, you are freshmen ! 
I'm an old weather-beaten soldier, that, whilst drum 
And trumpets terrified cowards, had the world 
At will. Beau, and Fl. (!), Faithful Friends, i. 2. 
What if I left my token and my letter 
With this strange fellow ... 
Not so, I'll trust no freshman with such secrets. 
Middleton, More Dissemblers besides Women, ii. 3. 
I am but a fresh-man yet in France, therefore I can send 
you no news. Hou-ell, Letters, I. i. 13. 
2. A student of the first year in a college or 
university. 
No Freshman shall wear his hat in the College yard, un- 
less it rains, hails, or snows, provided he be on foot, and 
have not both hands full. 
Laws of Han. Coll., quoted in Quiucy's Hist. Hai-v. 
[Univ., II. 539. 
He [Pendennis) drove thitherin a well-appointed coach, 
filled inside and out with dons, gownsmen, young fresh- 
mtn about to enter, and their guardians, who were con- 
ducting them to the University. 
Thackeray, Pendennis, xvii. 
I remember'd Everard's college fame 
When we were Freshmen. Tennyson, The Epic. 
Abbot Of freshmen. See abbot of yellow-beaks, under 
abbot. Freshman's Bible, the body of laws, the cata- 
logue, or the calendar of a collegiate institution. [Col- 
lege slang.) 
Every year there issues from the warehouse of Messrs. 
Deighton, the publishers to the University of Cambridge, 
an octavo volume. . . . Among the Undergraduates it is 
commonly known by the name of the Freshman's Bible 
the public usually ask for the University Calendar 
Westminster'ltev., XXXV. 230. 
President's freshman, formerly, a member of the fresh- 
... . . Milton, L'Allegro, I. 22. 
Quoted in Capt. John Smith's Works, II. 9. fresh-colored (fresh'kul'ord), a Having a man cla88 who performe'd the official errands of the presi 
8f. Bright; brilliant. lively, healthy color; ruddy: as, a fresh-colored dent_of the College, [U.S.] 
complexion. 
freshen (fresh'n), v. [< fresh + -oil (c).] I. 
intrans. 1. To grow brisk; grow stronger or 
brighter : as, the wind freshens; the verdure 
freshens. 
The breeze will freshen when the day is done. 
Byron, Corsair, i. 7. 
Sometimes on a sunny day it began even to be pleasant 
and genial, and a greenness grew over those brown beds, 
which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that Hope 
traversed them at night, and left each morning brighter 
traces of her steps. 
Ther hehnes garnysshed that they had vppon, 
With perlys and dyamauntez of price, 
Ther course[r]s trappid in the frexsrst wise. 
Generydes (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2037. 
0. Tipsy. [Slang.] 
Drinking was not among my vices. I could get fresh, 
as we call it, when in good company and excited liy wit 
and mirth ; but I never went to the length of being drunk. 
Marryat, Frank Mildmay. xiii. 
10. Sober; not tipsy. [Scotch.] 
There is our great Udaller is weel eneugh when he is 
fresh, but he makes ower mony voyages in his ship and 
his yawl to be lang sue. Scott, Pirate, xxiv. 
11. Verdant and conceited; presuming through 
ignorance and conceit; forward; officious. 
Compare cooJ. [Slang, U. S.] 12. Open; not 
frosty. [Scotch.] 
Our winters . . . have been open and fresh, as it is 
termed. 
P. Campsie, Stirliugs. Statist. Ace., xv. 319, N. (Jamieson.) 
Fresh blood, see blood. Fresh suit, or fresh pur- 
suit, in laic, effectual pursuit of a wrong-doer while the 
wrong is fresh. In old English criminal law such pur- 
suit of a thief was encouraged by allowing the owner who 
made it to recover his goods again ; otherwise they went 
to the crown if retaken. So, if a tenant, to prevent the 
landlord from distraining his cattle on the land, drove 
them otf the land, the landlord might, if he made fresh 
suit, distrain them off the land. =Syn. I and 2. t'nfaded, 
blooming, nourishing, hearty. 4. Xovel, Jteeent,ctc. See 
new. 6. Untrained, unskilled, raw. 
II. n. 1. A flood; a stream in overflow; an 
inundation; a freshet. 
U. a. Pertaining to a freshman, or to the 
class composed of freshmen, in a college. 
Lord ! how the Seniors knocked about 
The freshman class of one ! 
0. W. Holmes, Centennial of Harvard College, 1836. 
freshmanhood (fresh'man-hud), n. [< fresh- 
man + -hood.] The state of a freshman; the 
period of being a freshman. 
But yeameth not thy laboring heart, O Tom, 
For those dear hours of simple Freshmanhood > 
Harvardiana, III. 405. 
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, ix. freshmanic (fresh-man'ik), a. [< freshman + 
Heard -tc.] Pertaining to or resembling a freshman, 
or the state of freshmanhood. 
I do not pine for those freshmanic days. 
Harvardiana, III. 405. 
freshmanship (fresh'man-ship), n. [< fresh- 
man + -ship?} The state of being a freshman. 
A man who had been my fellow-pupil with him from the 
beginning of our Freshmanship would meet him there. 
C. A. Bridled, English University, p. 150. 
Cowper, Progress of Error, l. 411. freshmentt (fresh'ment), n. [< fresh + -ment.'} 
Freshen ^the^priming of your pistols the mist of the Refreshment. 
To enjoy the fresh inent of the air and river. 
J. Cartwright, Preacher's Travels, p. 19. 
The freshening wind about the cordage beat. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, II. 240. 
2. To grow fresh; lose salt or saltness. 
II. trans. 1. To refresh; revive; renew. 
Freshen'd from the wave the zephyr flew. 
Goldsmith, Traveller, 1. 246. 
Clearer skies and softer air, . . . 
Fresh'm'ny his lazy spirits as he ran, 
Unfolded genially and spread the man. 
falls is apt to dampen the brimstone. 
Cooper, Last of Mohicans, vii. 
2. To make fresh ; remove saltness from : as, 
to freshen fish or flesh. 
Freshen [salt codfish] by leaving it in water an hour. 
Qoodholme's Domestic Cyc., p. 113. 
being fresh, in any sense. 
Our garments, being, as they were, drenched in the sea, 
hold, notwithstanding, their freshness and glosses. 
Shak., Tempest, ii. 1. 
