Freshen

/ˈfɹɛʃən/ · verb

Meaning

(intransitive) To become fresh..

Definitions by Sense

1. (intransitive) To become fresh.
2. (intransitive, of wind) To become stronger.
3. (intransitive, transitive, of a cow) To begin or resume giving milk, especially after calving; to cause to resume giving milk.
4. (transitive) To make fresh.
5. (transitive) To give redness to (the face or cheeks of a person with light skin).
6. (transitive) To make less salty; to separate, as water, from saline ingredients.
7. (transitive, nautical) To relieve, as a rope, by change of place where friction wears it; or to renew, as the material used to prevent chafing.
8. (transitive) To top up (a drink).

Example Sentences

[...] the wind freshen’d, and carryed our Maintop-mast by the board; in which disaster, the man that was lower-most, and least in danger, fell over-board, and was drowned;

[...] he call’d his chief Mate as he was going off from the Watch, and ask’d him how all things far’d; who answer’d, that all was well, and the Gale freshen’d, and they run at a great Rate;

All day the breeze held in the same point, and rather freshened than died down; and towards afternoon, a swell began to set in from round the outer Hebrides.

As he gazed up, the night wind freshened and the rustling of leaves became louder and higher, with a semblance of urgent repetition [...]

For Sale—Three registered holstein cows. Due to freshen the first of Jan. February and March. Prices that will sell. Age three and five years. Eugune Gibson, Smyrna.

The cow freshened the week before Christmas. The calf was a heifer and there was rejoicing on Baxter’s Island.

It was a miserably small two-week net for eight good Holsteins, but they were near the end of their lactation period; soon he’d have to arrange for freshening them again.

It was a breezy sunny day; the air freshened the girl's cheeks, and gracefully dishevelled their ringlets: […]

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• freshens
• freshening
• freshened

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