fresh

Definitions

1. A surname from German.
2. sweet (having a pleasant taste, especially induced by sugar)
3. A rush of water, along a river or onto the land; a flood.
4. sweet (having a pleasant disposition)
5. A stream or spring of fresh water.
6. fresh (without salt)
7. The mingling of fresh water with salt in rivers or bays, as by means of a flood of fresh water flowing toward or into the sea.
8. candy, sweet
9. sweet food, dessert

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Examples

“They went on very well with their work⟳ until it was nigh done, when there came the second epistle to Noah's fresh, and away went their mill, shot, lock⟳, and barrel.”

“[…]And take⟳ his bottle from him. / When that's gone, / He shall drink⟳ naught but brine, for I'll not show⟳ him / Where the quick freshes are.”

“When they cross any great Water, or violent Fresh, or Torrent, they throw⟳ Tobacco, Puccoon, Peak, or some other valuable thing, that they happen⟳ to have⟳ about there, to intreat the Spirit presiding there, to grant them a safe passage. It is call'd a Fresh, when after very great Rains, or (as we suppose⟳) after a great Thaw of the Snow⟳ and Ice lying upon the Mountains Page 43 to the North West, the Water descends, in such abundance into the Rivers, that they overflow the Banks which bound their Streams at other times.”

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