(a) Made or established for the first time, newly created; (b) recently made or grown, unused, clean; of food, drink, medicine, or ingredients: fresh, not stale or aged; of skin: unblemished; fresh and ~; (c) recent; fresh in mind, clearly remembered; of wounds and wrongs: recently inflicted or suffered; of ailments: not of long standing; of blood: freshly shed; in (o, on) ~ time, recently; (d) recently chosen for, or appointed to, an office or a rank; also, inexperienced, naive; (e) last, lowest, least worthy.

Renewed; of the moon: in its first phase; maken ~, to re-create, restore, or rebuild (sth.); ever iliche (aliche) ~, ever fresh, unchanging, constant.

(a) Previously unknown, unfamiliar [some quots. very difficult to distinguish from 1. (a)]; (b) novel, modern, newfangled; gon the ~ fot, to dance in the new-fangled manner; (c) fickle, inconstant.

(a) Another, other, additional, further; (b) different from what existed before, changed, converted; (c) of a person or place named after or figuratively compared with an earlier one; ~ Adam, Christ; ~ Troie, legendary original name of London.

In combs.: ~ disseisine, recovery of property wrongfully seized [see disseisine]; ~ feire, ?a fair at which goods were bartered [but see feire n. 1. (b)]; ~ findinge, invention; ~ fruit [= firste fruites, q.v.]; ~ get, new fashion [see also get n. (1)]; ~ gise, new fashion; also personified, a character in morality play [see also gise n.]; ~ ikithnesse, the New Dispensation; ~ laue, the New Testament and its teachings; also, Deuteronomy [see laue 4a. (d)]; ~ lei = ~ laue; ~ lim [see līm n. (2)]; ~ shapere, ?one who repairs or restores; span ~, q.v.; ~ thought, inconstancy personified.

In proverbs and prov. sayings.

(a) In surnames; (b) in place names [see Smith PNElem. 2.50, 52].