Lexic.us

Definition of Freshen

1. Verb. Make (to feel) fresh. "The performance is likely to freshen Sue"; "The cool water refreshed us"

2. Verb. Become or make oneself fresh again. "She freshened up after the tennis game"

3. Verb. Make fresh again.

Definition of Freshen

1. v. t. To make fresh; to separate, as water, from saline ingredients; to make less salt; as, to freshen water, fish, or flesh.

2. v. i. To grow fresh; to lose saltness.

Definition of Freshen

1. Verb. To become fresh. ¹

2. Verb. To make fresh. ¹

3. Verb. (context: of a cow) To begin or resume giving milk, especially after calving. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Freshen

1. to make or become fresh [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Freshen

1. 1. To make fresh; to separate, as water, from saline ingredients; to make less salt; as, to freshen water, fish, or flesh. 2. To refresh; to revive. 3. To relieve, as a rope, by change of place where friction wears it; or to renew, as the material used to prevent chafing; as, to freshen a hawse. To freshen ballast, to shift Or restore it. To freshen the hawse, to pay out a little more cable, so as to bring the chafe on another part. To freshen the way, to increase the speed of a vessel. Origin: Freshened; Freshening. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Freshen

fresh breeze fresh country eggs fresh fish fresh food fresh foods fresh frozen plasma fresh gale fresh legs fresh meat fresh off the boat

fresh out of fresh start fresh water freshe freshed freshen (current term) freshen up freshened freshener fresheners

freshening freshenings freshens fresher freshers freshers' week freshes freshest freshet freshets

Literary usage of Freshen

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Seasons by James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch (1842)
"... o'er the freshen'cl world. The stealing shower is scarce to patter heard, By such as wander through the forest walks, Beneath the umbrageous multitude ..."

2. Journal of a Tour Through the United States, and in Canada, Made During the by Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny (1843)
"As the evening advanced, the wind began to freshen, till about ten o'clock, when it blew such a gale as I shall not soon forget. Still, however, it was in ..."

3. The Improved Housewife: Or Book of Receipts, with Engravings for Marketing by A. L. Webster (1855)
"... keep the cheese in a cool dry place. Cheese with insects, if kept till cold weather, will be free of them. 660. To freshen Salt Suffer. ..."

4. A Journal of the Proceedings in Georgia, Beginning October 20, 1737: By by William Stephens (1906)
"Towards Evening, on the Flood being made, a new Breeze sprung up from the NE which freshen'd very agreeably, and in the Dusk, being off Tybee about three ..."

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