2. Noun. The act by which something is freshened. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Freshening
1. freshen [v] - See also: freshen
Medical Definition of Freshening
1. Preparation of an open, partially healed wound for secondary closure by removal of fibrin, granulations, and early scar tissue. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Freshening
Literary usage of Freshening
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge by Curtis Hidden Page (1910)
"... we cried, that on this corse Might fall a freshening storm ! Rive its dry
bones, and with new force A new-sprung world inform ! ..."
2. A System of Gynaecology by Thomas Clifford Allbutt, William Smoult Playfair (1896)
"Any haemorrhage is checked by the intermittent hot douche and the pressure of
small sponges on holders. ...-bl FIG. 187.— Mode of freshening the edites of» ..."
3. How to Feed the Dairy Cow: Breeding and Feeding Dairy Cattle by Hugh G. Van Pelt (1919)
"FEED AND CARE AFTER freshening •When a cow freshens her entire system is in a
... However, because the cow has been properly fitted before freshening it is ..."
4. The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany (1818)
"At uoou being within a league of the shore, in nine fathoms, had to tack ship ;
the breeze freshening at NW drove us off shore, and until the 3d .of October ..."
5. An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's by Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900)
"Nerving simplest thought and deed, freshening time with truth and good, Consecrating
art and song, Holy book and pilgrim track, Hurling floods of tyrant ..."
6. Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman (1895)
"... the early October evening began to fall, and the blue sky to be covered with
clouds flying, gathering, and dispersing before a freshening westerly gale. ..."
7. English Prose and Verse from Beowulf to Stevenson by Henry Spackman Pancoast (1915)
"... at his warning lamp The fragrant hours, and rives Who slept in flowers the
day, And many a nymph who wreathes her brows And sheds the freshening dew, ..."
8. The Principles and Practice of Gynaecology by Thomas Addis Emmet (1880)
"... hook—Hanks's counter-pressure hook—Silver wire—Mode of freshening surfaces,
before the introduction of sutures—Silver sutures, and mode of introduction. ..."
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