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may take up as frejh water as if tliey were near the land. 
Abbot. —New i not had before : 
No borrowed bays his temples did adorn, 
But to our crown he did JreJJi jewels bring. Dryden. 
New ; not impaired by time : 
That love which firft was fet, will firfl decay ; 
Mine of a date will longer flay. Dryden. 
In a ftate like that of recentnefs : 
We will revive thofe times, and in our memories 
Preferveand dill keep frejli^ like flowers in waters. 
Denham. 
Thou fun, faid I, fair light! 
And thou enlighten’d earth, fo frejh and gay! Milton. 
Recent; newly come ; 
Amidft the fpirits Palinurus prefs’d ; 
Yet JrrJk from life, a new admitted guefl. Dryden. 
Repaired from any lofs or diminution : 
Nor lies flie long ; but as her fates ordain. 
Springs up to life ; and frefi to fecond pain ; 
2s fav’d to-day, to-morrow to be llain. Dryden. 
Florid ; vigorous ; cheerful ; unfaded ; unimpaired : 
Two fwains 
Frefi as the morn, and as the feafon fair. Pope. 
Healthy in countenance ; ruddy.—It is no rare obferva- 
tion in England to fee a yre/Zt-coloured lufly young man 
yoked to a confumptive female, and him foon after at¬ 
tending her to her grave. Harvey. 
Haft thou beheld ^.frefier gentlewoman, 
Sucli war of white and red within her cheeks ? Shakefpeare. 
Brifk ; ftrong vigorous.—As a frefi gale of wind fills the 
fails of a Holder .—Faffing; oppofed to eating or 
drinking. A low'toord. Sweet; oppofed to ftale or ftink- 
ing. Unpradliled.—How green and frefi you are in this 
old world. Shakefpeare, K. John .—In this fenfe of the word 
members of the univerfity of Oxford for a ftiort period 
after their entrance are nick-named frefimen. Mcifon’s Sup¬ 
plement. 
FRESH,/ Water not fait: 
He fhall drink nought but brine ; for I’ll not fhew him 
Where the quick frefes are. Shakejpcare. 
To FRESH, v.a. [from the adjeBive.'^ To refrefh : 
But quickly fhe it overpaft, fo foone 
As file her face had wypt to frefi her blood. Spenfer. 
FRESH DISSEIS'IN, in law, that diireifin which a 
man might formerly feek to defeat of himfelf, and by his 
own power, without reforting to the king, or the judica¬ 
ture ; as where it was not above fifteen days old, or of 
fome other ftiort continuance. Britton, c. 5. Of this, 
BraElon writes at large, concluding it to be arbitrary. 
Lib.y.c.$. See the article Disseisin, vol. v. p. 887. 
FRESH FORCE, f. in law, a force newly done in any 
city, borough, &c. And if a perfon be difteifed of any 
lands or tenements within fuch a city,.or borough, he 
who hath a right to the land, by the ufage and cuftom of 
the faid city, &c. may bring his cifife, or bill of fref force, 
within forty days after the force committed ; and recover 
the lands. F.N.B.^. This remedy may alfo be had 
where any man is deforced of any lands, after the death 
of his anceftor, to whom he is heir; or after the death of 
tenant for life, or in tail, in dower, &c. within forty days 
after the title accrued ; and in a bill of frejh force, the 
plaintiff or demandant ftiall make proteftation to fue in 
the nature of what writ he will, as ajjife of mortdancefor, 
of novel dijfeifn, intrufon, ( 3 c. New Nat. Br. 15. The aflife 
or bill of frejh force is fued out without any writ from the 
chancery ; but after the forty days, there is to be writ 
out of chancery, diredled to the mayor, &c. But this 
writ is obfolete fince ejeftments have come in ufe for re» 
covering the poffeflion of lands, &c. 
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FRESH SUIT, in law, is fuch a prefent and earneft: 
following of an offender, where a robbery is committed, 
as never ceafes from the time of the offence done or dif- 
covered, until he be apprehended. And the benefit of 
fuch purfuit of a felon is, that the party purfuing ftiall 
have his goods reftored to him ; which otherwife are for- 
feited to the king. Stavnif. PI. Cor. lib. 3. c. to. When 
an offender is thus apprehended, and indifted, upon 
which he is convifted, the party robbed ftiall have refti- 
tution of his goods ; and though tlvc party robbed do not 
apprehend the thief prefently, but that it be fome time 
after the robbery, if the party did what in him lay to take 
the offender; and not withftanding in fuch cafe he happen 
to be apprehended by fome other perfon, it ftiall be ad¬ 
judged purfuit. Terms de Ley. It has been anciently 
holdeii, that to make a fref fait, the party ought to make 
hue and cry with all convenient fpeed, and to have taken 
the offender himfelf, &c. But at this day, if the party 
hath been guilty of no grofs negligence, but hath ufed all 
reafonable care in inquiring after, purfuing, and appre¬ 
hending, the felon, he fhall be allowed to have made f iiffi- 
cient frfifuit. 2 Hawk. P. C. e. 23. Alfo it is faid, that 
the judging olfrefiJuit is in the diferetion of the court, 
though it ought to be found by the jury ; and the juftices 
may, if they think fit, aw’ard reftitution without making 
any inquifition concerning the fame, a Hawk. P. C.c. 23. 
Where a gaoler immediately purfues a felon, or other 
prifoner, efcaping from prifon, it is Jref fuit, to excufe 
the gaoler : and if a lord follow his difrefs into anothei’s 
ground, on its being driven off the preiiiifes, this is call¬ 
ed/re/liyl/fl; fo where a tenant purfues his cattle, that 
efcape or ftray into another man’s lands, &c. Fref fuit 
may be either within the view, or without ; as to which 
the law makes fome difference : and it has been faid, that 
fref fuit may continue for feven years. 3 Rep. S. P. C. 
To FRESH'EN, v.a. Tomakefrefh: 
Preclufive drops let all their moifture flow 
In large effufion o’er the frefen'd world. Thomfon. 
To FRESH'EN, v.n. To grow frefli : 
A frefening breeze the magic power fupply’d, 
While the wing’d veftel flew along the tide. Pol>e. 
FRESH'ES, f. in fea-language, denotes the impetuofity 
of an ebb-tide, increafed by heavy rains; and flowing out 
into the fea, often difcolouring it to a confiderable dif- 
tance, and forming a line that feparates the two colours, 
and which may be diftin6fly perceived for a great length 
along the coaft. The word is of common ufe in America, 
where the inundations fo called are of great fervice. 
They bring down the foil to the intervals below, and 
form a fine mould, producing corn, grain, and herbage, 
in the moft luxuriant plenty. They alfo afford another 
benefit, in regard to many rivers in America, viz. in 
equalizing the furface of the ftream where rapid falls, or 
cafeades, obftrufl the navigation; fo that rafts of timber 
and other merchandize are floated down to the fea-porls. 
FRESH'ET, f. A pool of frefh water: 
All fifh from fea or fliore, 
Frefiet or purling brook, or fhell or fin. Milton. 
FRESH'LY, adv. Coolly; newly; in the former ftate 
renewed : 
Then fhall our names. 
Familiar in their mouth as houfhold words. 
Be in their flowing cups frefly remember’d. Shakefpeare. 
With a healthy look ; ruddily.—Looks he ?K%frefly as he 
did the day he wreftled. Shakefpeare. 
FRESH'NESS,/. Newnefs; vigour; fpirit; the con¬ 
trary to vapidnefs.—Moft odours fmell beft broken or 
crufhed; but flowers prelfed or beaten, do lofe xhefrefi- 
nefs and fweetnefs of their odour. Bacon. —Freedom from 
diminution by time ; not ftalenefs.—For tfie conftant 
frfinefs it is fuch a pleafure as can never cloy or 
overworkthe mind ; for furely no man was ever weary of 
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