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Lately; recently. He rubbed it o'er with newly gathered mint. Dryden.

ed with important commissions in foreign countries, one of his duties being to bring to a newly named cardinal his insignia of office.

Anew; again; once more; newly. They crucify . . . the Son of God afresh. Heb. vi. 6.

A married man, or a man newly married.

To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel; as a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.

A thin coating of sand and fine gravel over a newly paved road. See Blind, v. t., 4.

The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly- gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc. Hence: Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness; a flush; a glow. A new, fresh, brilliant world, with all the bloom upon it. Thackeray.

A woman newly married, or about to be married. Has by his own experience tried How much the wife is dearer than the bride. Lyttleton. I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife. Rev. xxi. 9.

A man newly married, or just about to be married.

ter or name of; to assign to its true place in a system; as, to determine an unknown or a newly discovered plant or its name.

Unfledged, or newly fledged. [Obs.] Like eyas hawk up mounts unto the skies, His newly budded pinions assay. Spebser.

Applied to the down of newly hatched or unfledged birds.

In a fresh manner; vigorously; newly, recently; brightly; briskly; coolly; as, freshly gathered; freshly painted; the wind blows freshly. Looks he as freshly as he did Shak.

Divination as to the destinies of one newly born; the act or art of casting nativities; astrology.

fting wax, a composition of rosin, beeswax tallow, etc., used in binding up the wounds of newly grafted trees.

With a green color; newly; freshly, immaturely. -- a.

irst money received for the sale of goods in the morning, the first money taken at a shop newly opened, the first present sent to a young woman on her wedding day, etc. Their first good handsel of breath in this world. Fuller. Our present tears here, not our present laughter, Are but the handsels of our joys hereafter.…

the fall of this word, since the time where Milton sang of the Creator contemplating his newly- created world, -"how it showed . . . Answering his great idea," -to its present use, when this person "has an idea that the train has started," and the other "had no idea that the dinner would be so bad!" Trench.…

sometimes give terminations and idiotisms, suitable to their native language, unto words newly invented. M. Hale.

The murder of an infant born alive; the murder or killing of a newly born or young child; child murder.