v. t. & i. To make new; to renew. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Newer superl. Newest. ] [ OE. OE. newe, AS. niwe, neowe; akin to D. nieuw, OS. niwi, OHG. niuwi, G. neu, Icel. n&ymacr_;r, Dan. & Sw. ny, Goth. niujis, Lith. naujas, Russ. novuii, Ir. nua, nuadh, Gael. nuadh, W. newydd, Armor. nevez, L. novus, Gr. ne`os, Skr. nava, and prob. to E. now. √263. See Now, and cf. Announce, Innovate, Neophyte, Novel. ] 1. Having existed, or having been made, but a short time; having originated or occured lately; having recently come into existence, or into one's possession; not early or long in being; of late origin; recent; fresh; modern; -- opposed to old, as, a new coat; a new house; a new book; a new fashion. “Your new wife.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not before seen or known, although existing before; lately manifested; recently discovered; as, a new metal; a new planet; new scenes. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Newly beginning or recurring; starting anew; now commencing; different from what has been; as, a new year; a new course or direction. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. As if lately begun or made; having the state or quality of original freshness; also, changed for the better; renovated; unworn; untried; unspent; as, rest and travel made him a new man. [ 1913 Webster ]

Steadfasty purposing to lead a new life. Bk. of Com. Prayer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Men after long emaciating diets, fat, and almost new. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Not of ancient extraction, or of a family of ancient descent; not previously known or famous. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Not habituated; not familiar; unaccustomed. [ 1913 Webster ]

New to the plow, unpracticed in the trace. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. Fresh from anything; newly come. [ 1913 Webster ]

New from her sickness to that northern air. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

New birth. See under Birth. --
New Church, or
New Jerusalem Church, the church holding the doctrines taught by Emanuel Swedenborg. See Swedenborgian. --
New heart (Theol.), a heart or character changed by the power of God, so as to be governed by new and holy motives. --
New land, land cleared and cultivated for the first time. --
New light. (Zool.) See Crappie. --
New moon. (a) The moon in its first quarter, or when it first appears after being invisible. (b) The day when the new moon is first seen; the first day of the lunar month, which was a holy day among the Jews. 2 Kings iv. 23. --
New Red Sandstone (Geol.), an old name for the formation immediately above the coal measures or strata, now divided into the Permian and Trias. See Sandstone. --
New style. See Style. --
New testament. See under Testament. --
New world, the land of the Western Hemisphere; -- so called because not known to the inhabitants of the Eastern Hemisphere until recent times. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Novel; recent; fresh; modern. See Novel. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Newly; recently. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ New is much used in composition, adverbially, in the sense of newly, recently, to qualify other words, as in new-born, new-formed, new-found, new-mown. [ 1913 Webster ]

Of new, anew. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A language spoken in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Recently born. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A baby recently born, usually less than one month old; a neonate. [ PJC ]

prop. n. A town in England. [ PJC ]

Carry coals to Newcastle to do something utterly superfluous; to do something useless or wasteful; -- from the nearness of Newcastle to the coal-mining district. [ PJC ]

a. Recently come. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who has lately come. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. nual, F. noyau sone, of fruit, noyau d'escaler newel, fr. L. nucalis like a nut, fr. nux, nucis, nut. Cf. Nowel the inner wall of a mold, Nucleus. ] (Arch.) The upright post about which the steps of a circular staircase wind; hence, in stairs having straight flights, the principal post at the foot of a staircase, or the secondary ones at the landings. Also called newel post. See Hollow newel, under Hollow. [ 1913 Webster ]