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new year
Also new-year, New year, Newyear; 4 nw(e) ȝer(e; Sc. 6, 9 newer-, 8 nur-, ne'er-.
[f. new a. + year1. Cf. MDu. niewejaer, nie(u)jaer (Du. nieuwjaar), MLG. niejâr, G. neujahr, Icel. nýjár, Sw. nyår, Da. nytaar.]
1. a. The coming year; the year about to begin or just beginning; the commencement of another year; the first few days of a year. to see the new year in: see year 7.
c1200[see 3 below]. 13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 284 Hit is ȝol & nwe ȝer. a1400Relig. Pieces fr. Thornton MS. 63 One þe aughtene day of thi byrthe here That þe firste day es of þe newe ȝere. 1500–20Dunbar Poems lxxx. 12 God giue the guid prosperitie..In hansell of this guid new ȝeir. 16022nd Pt. Ret. fr. Parnass. v. i. 2003 At this good time of Newyeare he will be liberall. 1641Howell Vote in Lett. (1650) II, Then let me somthing bring May hansell the New-Year to Charles my King. 1786Burns Farmer's Salut. i, A Guid New-year I wish you, Maggie. 1831Scott Diary 1 Jan. in Lockhart, I cannot say the world opens pleasantly for me this New year. 1864Chambers's Encycl. VI. 739/1 Complimentary visits, and mutual wishes for a Happy New Year.
†b. ellipt. A new-year address. Obs. rare—1.
1595Copley Wits, Fits, & Fancies 68 A scholler presented a gratulatorie new yeer unto Sir Thomas Moore in prose.
c. Sc. New-year cheer. (Cf. quot. 1897 in 2.)
2. attrib. as New-year day, new year mass, new year ode, etc. New-year('s) honours list: see honour(s) list (honour n. 10).
a1400Morte Arth. 78 On the newȝere daye, at þe none evyne. 1456Paston Lett. I. 368 The god chiere that the persons ye wote off had here uppon New Yeer Day. 1588King Canisius in Cath. Tract. (S.T.S.) 175 Newermes quhilk is the circumcision of Christ vnder Augustus. 1728Pope Dunc. i. 44 New-year Odes, and all the Grub⁓street race. 1786Burns (title) The auld farmer's New⁓year-morning salutation to his auld mare. 1788Picken Poems 14 To glad their sauls wi' Nurday cheer. 1897Wright Sc. Life 15, I am again visiting my grannie to get my ‘ne'erday’, which meant..a daud of shortbread and currant-bun and a bawbee.
3. a. New-year's day, the first day of the year. Also (N. Amer.) with ellipsis of day.
Cf. MDu. nie(u)jaersdach (Du. nieuwjaarsdag), G. neujahrstag, Icel. nýjársdagr, Sw. nyårsdag, Da. nytaarsdag.
c1200Ormin 4230 Þatt daȝȝ iss New Ȝeress daȝȝ Mang Enngleþeode nemmnedd. 13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 1968 To dele, on nw ȝerez day, þe dome of my wyrdes. 1470–85Malory Arthur i. iii–v. 41 Vpon newe yeersday the barons lete maake a Iustes and a tournement. 1531in Vicary's Anat. (1888) App. ii. 102 Rewardes geuen on Sonday, Newe⁓yeres day at Grenewiche, as hathe ben accustomde. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 955 This yere Henrie..was borne at Richemond vpon Neweyers daye. 1625Godwin Moses & Aaron iii. (1641) 121 According to their civill Computation it was their first moneth, so that this feast may be termed their New-yeares day. 1701C. Wolley Jrnl. New York (1860) 57 The English observed one anniversary custom,..a neighbourly commerce of presents every New-Years day. 1783Blagden in Phil. Trans. LXXIII. 391 The following new-year's day it was sunk to—56° at eight in the morning. 1845Knickerbocker XXV. 128 Stay away on New-Year's and you stay away all the year. 1852R. S. Surtees Sponge's Sp. Tour lxv. 363 New-Year's Day is generally a bright, bitter, sunshiny day. 1909Springfield (Mass.) Weekly Republ. 4 Nov. 1 The general elections are not now expected until after New Year's. 1952J. Reaney in R. Weaver Canad. Short Stories (1960) 383 The Christmas holidays were haunted for me by my fear of what would happen when I went back there after New Year's. 1975F. Decker in S. Terkel Working iv. 190 She's just lucky he's home Christmas and New Year's.
fig.1635–56Cowley Davideis ii. 230 Whether by this in mystick Type we see The New-Year's Day of great Eternity.
b. So New-year's eve or New year's even (see eve n.1 2), New year's morn, New year's morrow, New year's tide.
13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 453 To be ȝederly ȝolden on nw ȝeres morn. Ibid. 1669 Þer þay dronken & dalten..on nwe ȝerez euen. 1482Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxlix. 319 And on newyers euen after they take harflete. a1500Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 66 Iuellis pricious..to sende you, my Souerein, þis newe yeres morowe. 1556Chron. Gr. Friars (Camden) 57 Item at Newyeeres tyde after was put downe the qwyne of the testornes. 1625Massinger New Way iv. ii, Thy wife brought me, Last new year's tide, a couple of fat turkeys. 1840Penny Cycl. XVI. 177/1 Gifts at new-year's-tide formed a charge of no small amount in the privy-purse expenses of royalty. 1864Chamb. Encycl. VI. 739/1 The night of New-Year's Eve, ‘St. Sylvester's Eve’.
4. a. New-year's gift, a gift made to another on, or for, New-year's day.
Cf. Du. nieuwjaarsgift, G. neujahrsgabe, etc.
1530Palsgr. 248/1 Newe yeres gyfte, estrayne. a1568R. Ascham Scholem. Pref. (Arb.) 21, I thought to præpare some litle treatise for a New yeares gift that Christmas. 1665Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 314 To send him yearly the value of twenty thousand Crowns as a New-years-gift. 1699Bentley Phal. Pref. 118 He might..make the Book his worthy New-years-gift to the Scholars of his House. 1777Brand Pop. Antiq. xvi. 187 The Sending of Presents, which are termed New Year's Gifts. 1840Penny Cycl. XVI. 177/1 An order of Tiberius, forbidding the giving or demanding of new-year's-gifts.
b. A popular name for the Winter Aconite.
1856Delamer Fl. Gard. 51 Aconite (Winter)..is commonly known as ‘The New Year's Gift’. |