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A passage, usually vertical, for admitting fresh air into a mine or a tunnel.

Not open to a free current of air; wanting fresh air, or communication with the open air.

An alcoholic tincture prepared with fresh plants. New Eng. Dict.

includes the black, red, and green seaweeds, as kelp, dulse, sea lettuce, also marine and fresh water confervæ, etc.

Above; on top of. [Obs.] Fresh waters run aloft the sea. Holland.

age; -- applied to passages of various kinds. The sides of every street were covered with fresh alures of marble. T. Warton.

A genus of fresh-water ganoid fishes, exclusively confined to North America; called bowfin in Lake Champlain, dogfish in Lake Erie, and mudfish in South Carolina, etc. See Bowfin.

A rhizopod. common in fresh water, capable of undergoing many changes of form at will. See Rhizopoda.

A peculiar small siliceous spicule having a denticulated wheel at each end; -- found in freshwater sponges.

A numerous group of fourteen -- footed Crustacea, inhabiting both fresh and salt water. The body is usually compressed laterally, and the anterior pairs or legs are directed downward and forward, but the posterior legs are usually turned upward and backward. The beach flea is an example. See Tetradecapoda and Arthrostr…

A fresh-water weed of the frog's-bit family (Hydrocharidaceæ), native to America. Transferred to England it became an obstruction to navigation. Called also waterweed and water thyme.

A genus of water fowls, of the order Anseres, including certain species of fresh-water ducks.

Over again; another time; in a new form; afresh; as, to arm anew; to create anew. Dryden.

A genus of fresh-water bivalves, having to teeth at the hinge. [Written also Anodonta.]

Trimmed. [Obs.] Full fresh and new here gear apiked was. Chaucer.

External clothing; vesture; garments; dress; garb; external habiliments or array. Fresh in his new apparel, proud and young. Denham. At public devotion his resigned carriage made religion appear in the natural apparel of simplicity. Tatler.

A genus of fresh-water phyllopod crustaceans. See Phyllopod.

A large fresh-water food fish of South America.

r grief; to appease or pacify, as passion or tumult; to satisfy, as appetite or desire. Refreshing winds the summer's heat assuage. Addison. To assuage the sorrows of a desolate old man Burke. The fount at which the panting mind assuages Her thirst of knowledge. Byron.

A genus of crustaceans, containing the crawfish of fresh-water lobster of Europe, and allied species of western North America. See Crawfish.