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A house-warming; especially, a reception, party, or entertainment given by a newly married couple, or by the husband upon receiving the wife to his house. [Written also infair.] [Scot., & Local, U. S.]

Begun; commenced; introduced to, or instructed in, the rudiments; newly admitted. To rise in science as in bliss, Initiate in the secrets of the skies. Young. Initiate tenant by courtesy (Law), said of a husband who becomes such in his wife's estate of inheritance by the birth of a child, but whose estate is not consum…

A newly formed shoot, or the annually produced addition to the stems of many mosses.

or laces, or, figuratively. with anything resembling laces. Shak. When Jenny's stays are newly laced. Prior.

day; as, morning dew; morning light; morning service. She looks as clear As morning roses newly washed with dew. Shak. Morning gown, a gown worn in the morning before one is dressed for the day. -- Morning gun, a gun fired at the first stroke of reveille at military posts. -- Morning sickness (Med.), nausea and vomit…

Recently; newly.

Newly hatched; being yet in the nest.

Newly beginning or recurring; starting anew; now commencing; different from has been; as, a new year; a new course or direction.

Something strange or newly happened. It is no news for the weak and poor to be a prey to the strong and rich. L'Estrange.

A person newly rich.

One newly received into the church, or one newly converted to the Christian faith. 1 Tim. iii. 6.

Newly invented; recent; new. [Obs.] Bp. Pearson.

n whose policy is wholly or partially fixed by nations foreign to itself, or to territory newly acquired by a conquering nation. In this sense, often used adjectively, as, open-door system, open-door policy, etc.

A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.

A board on which a newly molded brick is conveyed to the hack. Knight.

An upstart; a man newly risen into notice.

To cry, as a chicken hatching or newly hatched; to chirp; to cheep. There was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped. Is. x. 14.

Force; violence. [Obs.] For courageously the two kings newly fought with great random and force. E. Hall.

To bat back (the ball) when served. Receiving ship, one on board of which newly recruited sailors are received, and kept till drafted for service.

Newly; lately; freshly; not long since; as, advices recently received.