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new-made, ppl. a.
[new adv. 3.]
Recently or freshly made.
c1400Laud Troy Bk. 6231 That saw an hardy newe-made knyȝt. c1470Henryson Mor. Fab. iv. (Fox's Confess.) xx, He..of that new-maid salmond eit enewch. 1500–20Dunbar Poems xxxiii. 53 He come hame a new maid channoun. 1595Shakes. John i. i. 187 New made honor doth forget mens names. 1634Milton Comus 472 Sitting by a new made grave. 1684T. Burnet The. Earth ii. 132 As if new-made matter, like new clothes,..had a better gloss. 1717Rowe Epil. Mrs. Centlivre's Cruel Gift, Was that a Present for a new-made Widow? 1818Keats Endym. iv. 102 Sweet as a musk-rose upon new-made hay. 1886A. Winchell Walks Geol. Field 52 The soil..torn from our new-made road.
b. Of the tide: (see make v. 72).
1808Forsyth Beauties Scotl. V. 33 The flood-tide..according as it is new made, half run, or approaching to still water. |