freshman (freshman)

and a. I. n.; pl. freshmen (-men). 11. A novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge. 'Las, you are freshmen! I'm an old weather-beaten soldier, that, whilst drum And trumpets terrified cowards, had the world At will. Beau, and Fl . (?), Faithful Friends, i. 2. What if I left my token and my letter With this strange fellow--. Not so, I'll trust no freshman with such secrets. Middle ton, More Di emblers besides Women, ii. 3. I am but a fresh -man yet in France, therefore I can send you no news. Howell, Letters, I. i. 18. 2. A student of the first year in a college or university. No Freshman shall wear his hat in the College yard, unle it rains, hails, or snows, provided he be on foot, and have not both hands full. Laws of Harv, Coll., quoted in Quincy's Hist. Harv. [Univ., II. 539. He [Pen dennis] drove thither in a well-appointed coach, filled inside and out with dons, gownsmen, young fresh men about to enter, and their guardians, who were conducting them to the University. Thackeray , Pen dennis, xvii. I remember'd Everard's college fame When we were Freshmen. Tennyson, The Epic. Abbot of freshmen. See abbot of yellow - beaks, under abbot. Freshman's Bible, the body of laws, the catalogue, or the calendar of a collegiate institution. [College slang.] Every year there i ues from the warehouse of Me rs. Deighton, the publishers to the University of Cambridge, an octavo volume. Among the Undergraduates it is commonly known by the name of the Freshman's Bible the public usually ask for the University Calendar. Westminster Rev., XXXV. 230. President's freshman, formerly, a member of the freshman cla who performed the official errands of the president of the college. [U.S.] II. a. Pertaining to a freshman, or to the cla composed of freshmen, in a college. Lord! how the Seniors knocked about The freshman cla of one! O. W. Holmes , Centennial of Harvard College, 1836, fresh manhood (fresh'man-hud), n. [ But yearneth not thy laboring heart, O Tom, For those dear hours of simple Fresh manhood ? Harvard i an a, III. 405. fresh manic (fresh-man'ik), a. [ freshman + -ic.] Pertaining to or resembling a freshman, or the state of fresh manhood. I do not pine for those fresh manic days. Harvard i an a , III. 405. freshmanship (fresh'man-ship), n. [ fresh man + -ship .] The state of being a freshman. A man who had been my fellow-pupil with him from the beginning of our Freshmanship would meet him there. C. A. Bristed, English University, p. 150. freshmentt (fresh'ment), n. [ fresh + -ment.] Refreshment. To enjoy the fresh ment of the air and river. J. Cartwright, Preacher's Travels, p. 19. freshne (fresh'nes), n. [ fre hene e ; fresh + -ne .] The condition or quality of being fresh, in any sense. Our garments, being, as they were, drenched in the sea, hold, notwithstanding, their freshne and glo es. Shak ., Tempest, ii. 1. The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary IMG:content-1842.png:[blocks in formation] Of this poor infant, this fresh - new seafarer, I would it would be quiet. Shak ., Pericles, iii. 1. fresh-run (fresh'run), a. 1. Just from the sea; having recently run up a river, as a salmon. -2. Anadromous in general, as a fish. fresh-shot (fresh's hot), n. [Appar. a perver- sion of freshet , as if it meant, in this instance, fresh water shot out into the sea.] The dis- charge of fresh water from any great river into the sea, often extending to a considerable dis- tance from the mouth of a river. Imp . Dict . fresh-sophomore (fresh's of"ō-mōr), n. One who enters college in the sophomore year, hav- ing made the studies of the freshman year else- where. Also, abbreviated, fresh - soph . [U.S.] I was a Fresh - Sophomore then, and a waiter in the Com- mons' hall. Yale Lit. Mag., XII. 114. fresh-water (fresh'water), a . 1. Pertaining on water that is fresh or not salt: as, fresh- water deposits; fresh - water fish. As I have heard that, somewhere in the main, Fresh- water springs come up through bitter brine. Tennyson (ed. 1833), Sonnets, ii. 2. Accustomed to sail on fresh water only, as on lakes and rivers: as, a fresh - water sailor.3. Raw; untrained: as, " fresh - water soldiers," Knolles. Fresh-water cod. See cod 2. - Fresh-water fox, an English name of the common carp, alluding to its supposed cunning. - Fresh-water herring, a local English name of the whitefish, Coregonus clupendes. - Freshwater marsh-hen, a name of Rallus elegans, the king rail of the United States. Fresh-water mu els, the Unionidæ, as distinguished from the Mytilidæ or marine 2375 It costith greet to use a synne That is clepid foule Enuye, For it fretith man with-inne; Bodi & soule it dooth distroie. Hymns to Virgin , etc. (E. E. T. S.), p. 66. Like as it were a moth fretting a garment. Book of Common Prayer , Ps. xxxix. 12. Rich robes are fretted by the moth. Words worth, The Egyptian Maid. 3. To wear away; fray; rub; chafe: as, to fret cloth by friction; to fret the skin. By starts, His fretted fortunes give him hope and fear. Shak ., A. and C., iv. 10. They would, by rolling up and down, grate and fret the object metal, and fill it full of little holes. Newton , Opticks. Aided by its burden of detrital matter, the river frets away the rocks along its banks, and thus tends to widen its chanirel. Huxley , Physiography, p. 134. 4. To make rough; cause to ripple; disturb; agitate: as, to fret the surface of water. Mountain pines fretted with the gusts of heaven. Shak ., M. of V., iv. 1. 5. To chafe painfully or vexatiously; irritate; worry; gall. Whan man hath that complexion, Full. of dredes and of wrath full thought, He fret him selven all to nought. Gower, Conf. Amant., III. 98. Fret not thyself because of evildoers. Ps. xxxvii. 1. Because thou hast fretted me in all these things; I also will recompense thy way upon thine head. Ezek. xvi. 43. This Wretch has fretted me that I am absolutely decay'd. Congreve, Way of the World, iii. 5. As a man who had once sinned, but who kept his conscience all alive and painfully sensitive by the fretting of an unhealed wound, he might have been supposed safer within the line of virtue than if he had never sinned at all. Hawthorne , Scarlet Letter, xviii. To fret one's gizzard. See gizzard .=Syn. 5. To vex, provoke, nettle. II. in trans. 1. To be worn away, as by fric rus pulex, not a true shrimp. Fresh-water soldier, the Stratiotes aloides, a European aquatic plant with sword shaped leaves. fresh woman (fresh'wum"an), n.; pl. fresh -wo men (-wim"en). An a umed feminine correlative of freshman in the academical sense. Mother, you do intreat like a fresh - woman ; 'Tis against the laws of the university. Middle ton, Chaste Maid, iii. 2.