freshen (freshn)

[ The breeze will freshen when the day is done. Byron, Corsair, i. 7. Sometimes on a sunny day it began even to be pleasant and genial, and a greenne grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that Hope traversed them at night, and left each morning brighter traces of her steps. Charlotte Bronte , Jane Eyre, ix. Heard The freshening wind about the cordage beat. William Morris , Earthly Paradise, II. 240. 2. To grow fresh; lose salt or saltne . II. trans. 1. To refresh; revive; renew. Freshen'd from the wave the zephyr flew. Goldsmith, Traveller, 1. 246. Clearer skies and softer air,... Fresh'ning his lazy spirits as he ran, Unfolded genially and spread the man. Cowper, Progre of Error, 1. 411. Freshen the priming of your pistols - the mist of the falls is apt to dampen the brimstone. Cooper, Last of Mohicans, vii. A strong and healthy soil of common sense, freshened by living springs of feeling. Long fellow, Hyper i on, i. 3. 2. To make fresh; remove saltne from: as, to freshen fish or flesh. Freshen [salt codfish] by leaving it in water an hour. Goodholme's Domestic Cyc., р. 113. chet, adj., fresh (applied, among other things, to a spring), dim. of fres, fem. fresche, fresh: see fresh, a., and cf. fresh, n.] 1. A small stream of fresh water; a brook. Beyond the said mountaines towards the North, there is a most beaut i full wood growing on a plaine ful of fountaines & freshets. Hakluyt's Voyages, 1. 94. All fish, from sea or shore, Freshet or purling brook, of shell or fin. Milton , P. R., ii. 345. 2. A flood or overflowing of a river, by reason of heavy rains or melted snow; an inundation, especially one of a comparatively moderate extent: same as fresh, n., 1. Between Salem and Charles town is situated the town of Lynn, near to a river, whose strong freshet at the end of winter filleth all her banks, and with a violent torrent vents itself into the sea. F. Gorges, Description of New England (1658), p. 29. freshly (fresh'li), adv. [ And swore, and hertely gan her hete [promise] Euer to be stedfast and trew, And loue her alway freshly new. Isle of Ladies. Looks he as freshly as he did the day he wrestled? Shak., As you Like it, iii. 2. Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years: Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more. Dryden, Edipus, iv. 2.