Word Finder - fresh

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A rush of water, along a river or onto the land; a flood.

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A stream or spring of fresh water.

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The mingling of fresh water with salt in rivers or bays, as by means of a flood of fresh water flowing toward or into the sea.

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(commercial fishing) To pack (fish) loosely on ice.

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To flood or dilute an area of salt water with flowing fresh water.

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(of wind) To become stronger.

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To rebore the barrel of a rifle or shotgun.

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To update.

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To freshen up.

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To renew.

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(of a dairy cow) to give birth to a calf.

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Newly produced or obtained; recent.

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He followed the fresh hoofprints to find the deer.

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(of food) Not cooked, dried, frozen, or spoiled.

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After taking a beating in the boxing ring, the left side of his face looked like fresh meat.

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(of plant material) Still green and not dried.

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Invigoratingly cool and refreshing.

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What a nice fresh breeze.

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• cool

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(of water) Without salt; not saline.

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After a day at sea it was good to feel the fresh water of the stream.

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Rested; not tired or fatigued.

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• rested

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In a raw or untried state; uncultured; unpracticed.

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a fresh hand on a ship

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Youthful; florid.

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Good, fashionable.

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a fresh pair of sneakers

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• cool
• fashionable

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Tipsy; drunk.

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Recently; just recently; most recently

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We are fresh out of milk.

I could smell fresh muffins.

A little fresh air might clear some of the cobwebs.

He smiled but reached for a fresh muffin instead.

It was as if they had started a fresh relationship.

While Bird Song fed its guests only breakfast, there was always fresh fruit available and the management triumvirate ate heartily of nature's stores.

Fresh blackberry pie sounded good.

The air was crisp and fresh, the night sky clear.

You do not know the relief of brushing away a fly that has bitten you, nor the delight of eating delicious food, nor the satisfaction of drawing a long breath of fresh, pure air.

The scents of fresh bread and some sort of meat cooking nearly nailed her to the ground as she rounded the corner.

We collect the money, the customer gets to relax, enjoy this gorgeous mountain scenery and eat your fresh blueberry muffins.

Oh, it's a fresh broadsheet.

In 1866 he received three years' leave of absence to collect fresh materials, and in 1869 succeeded Heinrich Ewald as professor of oriental languages at Gottingen.

Whereas Plato's main problem had been the organization of the perfect state, and Aristotle's intellect had ranged with fresh interest over all departments of the knowable, political speculation had become a mockery with the extinction of free political life, and knowledge as such had lost its freshness for the Greeks of the Roman Empire.

The warmth, shelter and abundant food in the nests, due both to the fresh supplies brought in by the ants and to the large amount of waste matter that accumulates, must prove strongly attractive to the various " guests."

He has, indeed, a true love of England, sometimes not without a suspicion of insularity, but always fresh and ingenuous.

It brought Ladislaus little immediate gain; but it stimulated the elements of unrest in Prussia to fresh activity.

In process of time some of these banks, as in the case of Venice, raised themselves above the level of the water and became the true shore-line, while behind them lay large surfaces of water, called lagoons, formed partly by the fresh water brought down by the rivers, partly by the salt-water tide which found its way in by the channels of the river mouths.

The pathos of the Children's Crusade of 1212 only nerved him to fresh efforts.

Valvata is common in fresh waters throughout Britain; the gill when the animal is expanded is protruded beyond the mantle-chamber.

New amalgams and methods of colouring have been discovered, and fresh forms have been diligently studied.

The corpse of the vampire, which may often be recognized by its unnaturally ruddy and fresh appearance, should be staked down in the grave or its head should be cut off; it is interesting to note that the cutting off of heads of the dead was a neolithic burial rite.

Many enter, or live exclusively in, such fresh waters as are at no great distance from the sea.

Gobius alcocki, from brackish and fresh waters of Lower Bengal, is one of the very smallest of fishes, not measuring over 16 millimetres (= 7 lines).

Formerly in Egypt the cotton was treated as a perennial, but this practice has been generally abandoned, and fresh plants are raised from seed each year, as in America; one great advantage is that more than one crop can thus be obtained each year.

Slave labour disappeared, and under new and more promising auspices a fresh career of progress began.

Citric acid is used in calico printing, also in the preparation of effervescing draughts, as a refrigerant and sialogogue, and occasionally as an antiscorbutic, instead of fresh lemon juice.

The fresh insight into the history of the church evinced by this work at once drew attention to its author, and even before he had terminated the first year of his academical labours at Heidelberg, he was called to Berlin, where he was appointed professor of theology.

It is found that transparent oils under the influence of light absorb oxygen, becoming deeper in colour and opalescent, while strong acidity and a penetrating odour are developed, these changes being due to the formation of various acid and phenylated compounds, which are also occasionally found in fresh oils.

But while the Christians of the West were thus winning fresh ground from the Mahommedans, in the course of the 11th century, the East Roman empire had now to bear the brunt of a Mahommedan revival under the Seljuksa revival which, while it crushed for a time the Greeks, only acted as a new incentive to the Latins to carry their arms to the East.

Such were the forces set in movement by Urban II., when, after holding a synod at Piacenza (March, 10 9 5), and receiving there fresh appeals from Alexius, he moved to Clermont, in the S.E.

The position of the Franks in the Holy Land was not improved by the attack on Damascus; while the ignominious failure of a Crusade led by two kings brought the whole crusading movement into discredit in western Europe, and it was utterly in vain that Suger and St Bernard attempted to gather a fresh Crusade in 1150.

In 1865 a fresh feud occurred between the Orange Free State Boers and the Basuto.

There fresh proofs of his prowess only served to kindle against him the rancour of his enemies and the jealousy of the king.

A second edition with a supplement, published immediately after, drew forth fresh protestations, and the edition was suppressed.

Obviously the purpose of the paragraph is to point out the wisdom of enjoying life in the time of youth while the physical powers are fresh and strong, and the impotency of old age has not yet crept in.

In England the word "snail" in popular language is associated with Gasteropods which inhabit land or fresh water, and which possess large conspicuous spiral shells; terrestrial Gasteropods, in which the shell is rudimentary and concealed, are distinguished as "slugs."

In November 1902 a fresh settlement was arranged and Berar was leased in perpetuity to the British government in return for an annual rental of 25 lakhs.

In 1841 Mosander, having in 1839 discovered a new element lanthanum in the mineral cerite, isolated this element and also a hitherto unrecognized substance, didymia, from crude yttria, and two years later he announced the determination of two fresh constituents of the same earth, naming them erbia and terbia.

Every year is attended by fresh " discoveries " in this prolific source of elementary substances, but the paucity of materials and the predilections of the investigators militate in some measure against a just valuation being accorded to such researches.

At the same time Alexander himself made it a principal concern to win fresh geographical knowledge, to open new ways.

As the soldiers of Alexander died off, fresh levies of home-born Macedonians could be raised only by the chief who held the motherland.

Thenceforward elephants, either brought fresh from India or bred in the royal stables at Apamea, regularly figured in the Seleucid armies.

The pope, ever in need of money, now created twelve new cardinals, from whom he received 120,000 ducats, and fresh conquests for Cesare were considered.

The distress among all classes continued to be appalling; and in March the attempt of the Directory to replace theassignats by a new issue of mandats created fresh dissatisfaction after the breakdown of the hopes first raised.

It never again obtained a footing there; for, although, late in the middle ages, the book of Revelation - by what means we cannot tell - did recover its authority, the Church was by that time so hopelessly trammelled by a magical cultus as to be incapable of fresh developments.

Bloodhounds quest slowly and carefully, and when they lose the scent cast backwards until they recover the original trail and make a fresh attempt to follow it.

After fresh trouble with the clergy, he returned to Paris and published a defence of his theories in a work entitled Ides sur la politique de Platon et d'Aristole.

This postponement of abolition was dictated by the wish to introduce a fresh stock of slaves into Haiti, if that island should be recovered.

The slaves were overworked now that fresh supplies were stopped, and their numbers rapidly decreased.

Even as its main historical importance had formerly sprung from pagan learning, so now it acquired fresh importance as a centre of Christian theology and church government.