The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fresh \Fresh\ (fr[e^]sh), a. [Compar. Fresher (fr[e^]sh"[~e]r); superl. Freshest.] [OE. fresch, AS. fersc; akin to D. versch, G. frisch, OHG. frisc, Sw. frisk, Dan. frisk, fersk, Icel. fr[imac]skr frisky, brisk, ferskr fresh; cf. It. fresco, OF. fres, freis, fem. freske, fresche, F. frais, fem. fra[^i]che, which are of German origin. Cf. Fraischeur, Fresco, Frisk.]
Possessed of original life and vigor; new and strong; unimpaired; sound.
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New; original; additional. ``Fear of fresh mistakes.''
--Sir W. Scott.A fresh pleasure in every fresh posture of the limbs.
--Landor. Lately produced, gathered, or prepared for market; not stale; not dried or preserved; not wilted, faded, or tainted; in good condition; as, fresh vegetables, flowers, eggs, meat, fruit, etc.; recently made or obtained; occurring again; repeated; as, a fresh supply of goods; fresh tea, raisins, etc.; lately come or made public; as, fresh news; recently taken from a well or spring; as, fresh water.
Youthful; florid; as, these fresh nymphs.
--Shak.In a raw, green, or untried state; uncultivated; uncultured; unpracticed; as, a fresh hand on a ship.
Renewed in vigor, alacrity, or readiness for action; as, fresh for a combat; hence, tending to renew in vigor; rather strong; cool or brisk; as, a fresh wind.
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Not salt; as, fresh water, in distinction from that which is from the sea, or brackish; fresh meat, in distinction from that which is pickled or salted.
Fresh breeze (Naut.), a breeze between a moderate and a strong breeze; one blowinq about twenty miles an hour.
Fresh gale, a gale blowing about forty-five miles an hour.
Fresh way (Naut.), increased speed.
Syn: Sound; unimpaired; recent; unfaded: ruddy; florid; sweet; good: inexperienced; unpracticed: unused; lively; vigorous; strong.
Usage examples of "fresh way".
And as he surveyed the scene of his trouble with true German phlegm, he would fish a brier-wood pipe from the recesses of his pockets, fill it with tobacco, and go plodding off in a cloud of smoke in search of some fresh way to narrowly escape destruction.
Tomorrow, he would have to think of some fresh way of listening to the news.
It certainly seemed more comfortable and decent than stumbling into the woods in a violent rainstorm to hunt for some fresh way to be killed.
These were my reasons for postponing the battle from yesterday to today, for it is my intention to give battle, and as the way to the enemy across the Elpeus has been blocked by him, I have opened up a fresh way by dislodging his men who were holding another pass, and I shall not stop till I have brought the war to a close.