New

(nū), a. [compar. NEWER; superl. NEWEST.] [A.-S. niwe, niowe, neowe, O. Sax. niwi, nigi, O. Fries. nie, D. nieuw, O. H. Ger. niwi, niuwi, M. H. Ger. niuwe, N. H. Ger. neu, Goth. niujis, Icel. nyr, Dan. & Sw. ny, allied to Lat. novus, Gr. νέος, Skr. nawas, Slav. novyi, Lith. naujas, Per. naw, nū, nō, Ir. nua, nuadh, W. newydd, Armor. nevez.]

1. Having existed, or having been made, but a short time; having originated or occurred lately; not early in being; of late origin; recent; fresh; modern;—opposed to old, and used of things; as, a new coat; a new house; a new book; a new fashion.
2. Not before seen, made acquainted with, or known; lately manifested; recently invented, discovered, or established as true; strange; as, a new metal; a new theory.

Thou profoundest hell, Receive thy new possessor. Milton.

3. Starting anew; renovated; commencing;—said of any thing that recurs periodically; as, a new week; a new moon; a new year.
4. Not ancient; modern; not of ancient extraction, or of a family of ancient descent.

By superior capacity and extensive knowledge a new man often mounts to favor. Addison. 5. Not worn out, defaced by use, or the like; in condition as at first; renovated or repaired so as to recover the first state. Men, after long emaciating diets, wax plump, fat, and almost new. Bacon.

6. Not habituated; not familiar; unaccustomed. “New to the plow, unpracticed in the trace.” Pope.
7. Fresh from any thing; newly come. “New from her sickness to that northern air.” Dryden.

☞ New is much used in composition, adverbially, in the sense of newly, recently, to qualify other words, as in new-formed, new-found, new-made. New land, land cleared and cultivated for the first time.—New red sandstone (Geol.), the formation immediately above the coal-measures or strata.—New style. See STYLE. Syn.—Novel; recent; fresh; modern. See NOVEL.