NEW, a.

1. Lately made, invented, produced or come into being; that has existed a short time only; recent in origin; novel; opposed to old, and used of things; as, a new coat; a new home; a new book; a new fashion; a new theory; the new chimistry; a new discovery.
2. Lately introduced to our knowledge; not before known recently discovered; as, a new metal; a new species of animals or plants found in foreign countries; the new continent.
3. Modern; not ancient.
4. Recently produced by change; as, a new life. Put on the new man. Eph. iv.
5. Not habituated; not familiar; unaccustomed. Heretics and such as instill their poison into new minds. Hooker. New to the plow, unpracticed in the trace. Pope.
6. Renovated; repaired so as to recover the first state. Men, after long emaciating diets, wax plump, fat, and almost new. Bacon.
7. Fresh after any event. New from her sickness to that northern air. Dryden.
8. Not of ancient extraction or a family of ancient distinction. By superior capacity and extensive knowledge, a new man often mounts to favor. Addison.
9. Not before used; strange; unknown. They shall speak with new tongues. Mark xvi.
10. Recently commenced; as, the new year.
11. Having passed the change or conjunction with the sun as, the new moon.
12. Not cleared and cultivated, or lately cleared; as, new land. America.
13. That has lately appeared for the first time; as, a new star. New is much used in composition to qualify other words, an always bears its true sense of late, recent, novel, fresh; as in new-born, new-made, new-grown, new-formed, new-found. In this use, new may be considered as adverbial, or as a part of the compound.

To make new. [Not used.] Cowel.

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. Newly; recently.
   
   
   Chaucer.

   * 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.

3. To make new] to renew.
   
   
   [Obs.]
4. Not before seen or known, although existing before; lately manifested; recently discovered; as, a new metal; a new planet; new scenes.
5. Newly beginning or recurring; starting anew; now commencing; different from has been; as, a new year; a new course or direction.
6. 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.

7. Not of ancient extraction, or of a family of ancient descent; not previously known or famous.
   
   
   Addison.
8. Not habituated; not familiar; unaccustomed.
   
   

   New to the plow, unpracticed in the trace. Pope.

9. 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. (Zoöl.) 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.