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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: New \New\, a. [Compar. {Newer}; superl. {Newest}.] [OE. OE newe, AS niwe, neowe akin to D. nieuw OS niwi, OHG. niuwi G. neu, Icel. n?r, Dan. & Sw ny Goth. niujis Lith. naujas, Russ. novuii Ir nua, nuadh Gael. nuadh W. newydd Armor. nevez, L. novus, gr ?, Skr. nava, and prob. to E. now [root]263. See {Now}, and cf {Announce}, {Innovate}, {Neophyte}, {Novel}.] 1. Having existed, or having been made but a short time; having originated or occured lately; having recently come into existence, or into one's possession; not early or long in being of late origin; recent; fresh; modern; -- opposed to {old}, as a new coat; a new house; a new book; a new fashion. ``Your new wife.'' --Chaucer. 2. Not before seen or known although existing before lately manifested; recently discovered; as a new metal; a new planet; new scenes. 3. Newly beginning or recurring; starting anew; now commencing; different from has been as a new year; a new course or direction. 4. As if lately begun or made having the state or quality of original freshness; also changed for the better; renovated; unworn; untried; unspent; as rest and travel made him a new man. Steadfasty purposing to lead a new life. --Bk. of Com. Prayer. Men after long emaciating diets, fat, and almost new --Bacon. 5. Not of ancient extraction, or of a family of ancient descent; not previously kniwn or famous. --Addison. 6. Not habituated; not familiar; unaccustomed. New to the plow, unpracticed in the trace. --Pope. 7. Fresh from anything newly come New from her sickness to that northern air. --Dryden. {New birth}. See under {Birth}. {New Church}, or {New Jerusalem Church}, the church holding the doctrines taught by Emanuel Swedenborg. See {Swedenborgian}. {New heart} (Theol.), a heart or character changed by the power of God, so as to be governed by new and holy motives. {New land}, land ckeared and cultivated for the first time. {New light}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Crappie}. {New moon}. a The moon in its first quarter, or when it first appears after being invisible. b The day when the new moon is first seen; the first day of the lunar month, which was a holy day among the Jews. --2 Kings iv 23. {New Red Sandstone} (Geol.), an old name for the formation immediately above the coal measures or strata, now divided into the Permian and Trias. See {Sandstone}. {New style}. See {Style}. {New testament}. See under {Testament}. {New world}, the land of the Western Hemisphere; -- so called because not known to the inhabitants of the Eastern Hemisphere until recent times. Syn: Novel; recent; fresh; modern. See {Novel}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: New \New\, adv Newly; recently. --Chaucer. Note: New is much used in composition, adverbially, in the sense of newly, recently, to quality other words as in new-born, new-formed, new-found, new-mown. {Of new}, anew. [Obs.] --Chaucer. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: New \New\, v. t. & i. To make new to renew. [Obs.] From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: new adj 1: not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered; "a new law"; "new cars"; "a new comet"; "a new friend"; "a new year"; "the New World" [ant: {old}] 2: other than the former one(s); different; "they now have a new leaders"; "my new car is four years old but has only 15,000 miles on it"; "ready to take a new direction" [syn: {new(a)}] 3: having no previous example or precedent or parallel; "a time of unexampled prosperity" [syn: {unexampled}] 4: of a kind not seen before "the computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem" [syn: {fresh}, {novel}] 5: lacking training or experience; "the new men were eager to fight"; "raw recruits"; "he shipped as a green hand on a vessel" [syn: {raw}, {green}, {wet behind the ears(p)}] 6: of a new (often outrageous) kind or fashion [syn: {newfangled}] 7: (often followed by `to') unfamiliar; "new experiences"; "experiences new to him"; "errors of someone new to the job" [syn: {new to(p)}] 8: (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity; "baby carrots"; "new potatoes"; "young corn" [syn: {baby}, {young}] 9: unaffected by use or exposure; "it looks like new" 10: (linguistics) in use after Medieval times; "New Eqyptian was the language of the 18th to 21st dynasties" [syn: {New}] 11: (linguistics) used of a living language; being the current stage in its development; "Modern English"; "New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew" [syn: {Modern}, {New}] adv : very recently; "they are newly married"; "newly raised objections"; "a newly arranged hairdo"; "grass new washed by the rain"; "a freshly cleaned floor"; "we are fresh out of tomatoes" [syn: {recently}, {newly}, {freshly}, {fresh}]
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