New from her sickness to that northern air.
Dryden.
New birth. See under Birth. -- New Church, or New Jerusalem Church, the
church holding the doctrines taught by Emanuel Swedenborg. See
Swedenborgian. -- New heart (Theol.), a heart or character changed by
the power of God, so as to be governed by new and holy motives. -- New
land, land ckeared and cultivated for the first time. -- New light.
(Zoöl.) See Crappie. -- New moon. (a) The moon in its first quarter, or
when it first appears after being invisible. (b) The day when the new
moon is first seen; the first day of the lunar month, which was a holy
day among the Jews. 2 Kings iv. 23. -- New Red Sandstone (Geol.), an
old name for the formation immediately above the coal measures or
strata, now divided into the Permian and Trias. See Sandstone. -- New
style. See Style. -- New testament. See under Testament. -- New world,
the land of the Western Hemisphere; -- so called because not known to
the inhabitants of the Eastern Hemisphere until recent times.
Syn. -- Novel; recent; fresh; modern. See Novel.
New (?), adv. Newly; recently. Chaucer.
New is much used in composition, adverbially, in the sense of newly,
recently, to quality other words, as in new-born, new-formed,
new-found, new- mown.
Of new, anew. [Obs.] Chaucer.