Adjective

(er)

Newly produced or obtained.

He followed the fresh hoofprints to find the deer.

I seem to make fresh mistakes every time I start writing.

Not cooked, dried, frozen, or spoiled.

After taking a beating in the boxing ring, the left side of his face looked like fresh meat.

I brought home from the market a nice bunch of fresh spinach leaves straight from the farm.

a glass of fresh milk

(of plant material) Still green and not dried.

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With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get

Refreshing or cool.

What a nice fresh breeze.

(of water) Without salt; not saline.

After a day at sea it was good to feel the fresh water of the stream.

* (?), The World Encompassed , Nicholas Bourne (publisher, 1628), page 49:

There we made our ?hip fa?t with foure ropes, in ?mooth water, and the fre?h water ranne downe out of the hill into the ?ea,

* 1820 , William Scoresby, An Account of the Arctic Regions , Archibald Constable & Co., page 230:

When dissolved, it produces water sometimes perfectly fresh , and sometimes saltish;

* 2009 , Adele Pillitteri, Maternal and Child Health Nursing , Sixth Edition, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, ISBN 9781582559995, page 1557:

Additional changes that occur when water enters the lungs depend on whether the water is fresh or salt.

Rested; not tired or fatigued.

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Before the match, Hodgson had expressed the hope that his players would be fresh rather than rusty after an 18-day break from league commitments because of two successive postponements.

In a raw or untried state; uncultured; unpracticed.

a fresh hand on a ship

youthful; florid

* Shakespeare

these fresh nymphs

Adjective

(er)

Rude, cheeky, or inappropriate; presumptuous; disrespectful; forward.

No one liked his fresh comments.

Sexually aggressive or forward; prone to caress too eagerly; overly flirtatious.

Hey, don't get fresh with me!

Adjective

(er)

Having a slightly low temperature; mildly or pleasantly cold.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:

Allowing or suggesting heat relief.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=2 citation , passage=Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety.  She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.}}

Of a person, not showing emotion, calm and in self-control.

Unenthusiastic, lukewarm, skeptical.

Calmly audacious.

* (Nathaniel Hawthorne) (1804-1864)

Its cool stare of familiarity was intolerable.

* 1944 November 28, Irving Brecher and Fred F. Finklehoffe, Meet Me in St. Louis , Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer:

My father was talking to the World's Fair Commission yesterday, and they estimate it's going to cost a cool fifty million.

(label) Of a person, knowing what to do and how to behave; considered popular by others.

(label) In fashion, part of or fitting the in crowd; originally hipster slang.

* 2008 , Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in'' Nate Green, ''Built for Show , page xii

The fact that I was middle-aged, bald, married, and raising girls instead of chasing them didn't really bother me. Muscles are cool at any age.

(label) Of an action, all right; acceptable; that does not present a problem.

(label) A dismissal of a comment perceived as boring or pointless.

(label) Of a person, not upset by circumstances that might ordinarily be upsetting.

* (Henry Fielding) (1707-1754)

He had lost a cool hundred.

* (Charles Dickens) (1812-1870)

leaving a cool four thousand to Mr. Matthew Pocket