new : Idioms & Phrases

• adjective satellite conspicuously new
  bran-new; spick-and-span; spic-and-span.
  
  • shiny brand-new shoes
  • a spick-and-span novelty

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Bran"-new" adjective

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1. See Brand-new.

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• adjective satellite conspicuously new
  bran-new; spick-and-span; spic-and-span.
  
  • shiny brand-new shoes
  • a spick-and-span novelty

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Brand"-new" adjective

Etymology

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1. Quite new; bright as if fresh from the forge.

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• adjective satellite (metaphor) shining brightly
  

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• noun capital of the state of New Hampshire; located in south central New Hampshire on the Merrimack river
  Concord.
  

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• noun capital of the state of New Jersey; located in western New Jersey on the Delaware river
  Trenton.
  

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• noun capital of the state of New Mexico; located in north central New Mexico
  Santa Fe.
  

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• noun state capital of New York; located in eastern New York State on the west bank of the Hudson river
  Albany.
  

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• noun the capital of New Zealand
  Wellington.
  

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• noun the administrative capital and largest city of Papua New Guinea
  Port Moresby.
  

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Fire"-new` adjective

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1. Fresh from the forge; bright; quite new; brand-new. Charles reade.

   Your fire-new stamp of honor is scarce current. Shak.

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Fresh"-new` adjective

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1. Unpracticed. Obs. Shak.

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• noun twin cantilever bridges across the Mississippi at New Orleans
  

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• noun the largest city in New York State and in the United States; located in southeastern New York at the mouth of the Hudson river; a major financial and cultural center
  New York; Greater New York.
  

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• noun a parliamentary democracy on the eastern half of the island of New Guinea; in 1975 it became an independent state within the Commonwealth of Nations
  Independent State of Papua New Guinea.
  

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• noun (Judaism) a solemn Jewish feast day celebrated on the 1st or 1st and 2nd of Tishri; noted for the blowing of the shofar
  Rosh Hashona; Rosh Hashonah; Rosh Hashanah; Rosh Hashana.
  

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• noun a settlement established by the Dutch near the mouth of Hudson River and the southern end of Manhattan Island; annexed by the English in 1664 and renamed New York
  

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• noun a particular situation that is radically different from the preceding situation
  ballgame.
  
  • HDTV looks the same but it's really a whole new ballgame

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• . See under Birth.

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• noun the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago; part of Papua New Guinea
  

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• noun a university town in central New Jersey
  
• noun a province in southeastern Canada
  

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• noun an island to the to the east of Australia and to the north of New Zealand
  

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• adjective of or relating to New Caledonia
  

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• noun very tall evergreen of New Caledonia and the New Hebrides similar to norfolk island pine
  Araucaria columnaris.
  

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• noun large yew native to New Caledonia; cultivated in eastern Australia and New Zealand and Hawaii
  Austrotaxus spicata.
  

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• the church holding the doctrines taught by Emanuel Swedenborg. See Swedenborgian.

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• noun literary criticism based on close analysis of the text
  

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• noun the economic policy of F. D. Roosevelt
  
• noun the historic period (1933-1940) in the United States during which President Franklin Roosevelt's economic policies were implemented
  
• noun a reapportioning of something
  

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• noun a supporter of the economic policies in the United States known as the New Deal
  

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• noun the capital of India is a division of the old city of Delhi
  capital of India; Indian capital.
  

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• noun a publication (such as a book) that has been modified or updated and offered again for sale
  

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• noun a region of northeastern United States comprising Maine and New Hampshire and Vermont and Massachusetts and Rhode Island and Connecticut
  

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• noun common perennial of eastern North America having showy purplish flowers; a parent of the Michaelmas daisy
  Aster novae-angliae.
  

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• noun corned beef simmered with onions and cabbage and usually other vegetables
  boiled dinner.
  

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• noun a thick chowder made with clams and potatoes and onions and salt pork and milk
  

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• noun an American who lives in New England
  Yankee.
  

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• noun a modern English version of the Bible and Apocrypha
  

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• noun the capital of Ethiopia and the country's largest city; located in central Ethiopia
  capital of Ethiopia; Addis Ababa.
  

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• noun an area of woods and heathland in southern Hampshire that was set aside by William I as Crown property in 1079; originally a royal hunting ground but now administered as parkland; noted for its ponies
  

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• noun the Greek language as spoken and written today
  Modern Greek.
  

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• noun a Pacific island to the north of Australia; the 2nd largest island in the world; the western part is governed by Indonesia and the eastern part is Papua New Guinea
  

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• noun a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies
  NH; Granite State.
  
• noun one of the British colonies that formed the United States
  

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• noun a native or resident of New Hampshire
  Granite Stater.
  

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• noun a city in southwestern Connecticut; site of Yale University
  

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• (Theol.), a heart or character changed by the power of God, so as to be governed by new and holy motives.

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• noun a volcanic island republic in Melanesia; independent since 1980
  Republic of Vanuatu; Vanuatu.
  

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• noun an island in the Bismarck Archipelago; part of Papua New Guinea
  

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• noun any of various styles of jazz that appeared after 1940
  modern jazz; neo jazz.
  

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• noun a Mid-Atlantic state on the Atlantic; one of the original 13 colonies
  Garden State; NJ; Jersey.
  
• noun one of the British colonies that formed the United States
  

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• noun a native of resident of New Jersey
  New Jerseyan; Garden Stater.
  

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• noun a native of resident of New Jersey
  New Jerseyan; Garden Stater.
  

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• land ckeared and cultivated for the first time.

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• noun Latin since the Renaissance; used for scientific nomenclature
  Neo-Latin.
  

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• . (Zoöl.) See Crappie.

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• noun the operation that prepares for the next character to be printed or displayed as the first character on the next line
  

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• noun a town in southeastern Connecticut near Long Island Sound; an important whaling center in the 19th century
  

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• noun a style of women's clothing created by Christian Dior in 1947; involved a tight bodice and narrow waist and a flowing pleated skirt
  

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• noun a native or resident of New Mexico
  

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• noun a state in southwestern United States on the Mexican border
  Land of Enchantment; NM.
  

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• noun the time at which the Moon appears as a narrow waxing crescent
  new moon.
  

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• . (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.

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• noun a Dutch colony in North America along the Hudson and lower Delaware rivers although the colony centered in New Amsterdam; annexed by the English in 1664
  

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• noun one of two official languages of Norway; based on rural dialects
  Landsmal; Nynorsk; Landsmaal.
  

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• noun a port and largest city in Louisiana; located in southeastern Louisiana near the mouth of the Mississippi river; a major center for offshore drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico; jazz originated here among black musicians in the late 19th century; Mardi Gras is celebrated here each year
  

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• noun a coin used in Great Britain since 1971 worth one hundredth of a pound
  

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• noun a terrorist organization that is the militant wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines; a Maoist organization formed to overthrow the government; uses hit squads called Sparrow Units; opposes United States military presence in the Philippines
  NPA.
  

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• noun the time at which the Moon appears as a narrow waxing crescent
  new moon.
  

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• (Geol.), an old name for the formation immediately above the coal measures or strata, now divided into the Permian and Trias. See Sandstone.

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• noun a river in the southeastern United States that flows northward from North Carolina to West Virginia where it empties into the Kanawha River
  

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• noun a steel arch bridge across New River at Fayetteville, West Virginia
  

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• noun the detective department of the metropolitan police force of London
  Scotland Yard.
  

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• noun a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean to the north of Siberia and to the east of the Laptev Sea
  

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• noun an Australian state in southeastern Australia
  

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• noun latest part of the Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC in the Middle East (but later elsewhere)
  Neolithic Age; Neolithic.
  

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• . See Style.

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• noun the solar calendar now in general use, introduced by Gregory XIII in 1582 to correct an error in the Julian calendar by suppressing 10 days, making Oct 5 be called Oct 15, and providing that only centenary years divisible by 400 should be leap years; it was adopted by Great Britain and the American colonies in 1752
  Gregorian calendar.
  

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• noun the collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other epistles, and Revelation; composed soon after Christ's death; the second half of the Christian Bible
  

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• . See under Testament.

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• noun a planned urban community created in a rural or undeveloped area and designed to be self-sufficient with its own housing and education and commerce and recreation
  

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• noun an art movement in French cinema in the 1960s
  Nouvelle Vague.
  
• noun any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)
  vanguard; avant-garde; van.
  

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• noun a film maker who follows New Wave ideas
  

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• noun the hemisphere that includes North America and South America
  occident; western hemisphere.
  

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• the land of the Western Hemisphere; so called because not known to the inhabitants of the Eastern Hemisphere until recent times.

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• noun any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites
  anteater.
  

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• noun a variety of beaver found in almost all areas of North America except Florida
  Castor canadensis.
  

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• noun any bird of the family Icteridae whose male is black or predominantly black
  blackbird.
  

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• noun birds having a chattering call
  chat.
  

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• noun any of several venomous New World snakes brilliantly banded in red and black and either yellow or white; widely distributed in South America and Central America
  coral snake; harlequin-snake.
  

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• noun large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing
  flycatcher; tyrant flycatcher; tyrant bird.
  

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• noun American finch whose male has yellow body plumage in summer
  yellowbird; goldfinch; Spinus tristis.
  

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• noun a North American jay
  

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• noun of Canada and northeastern United States
  Mustela rixosa.
  

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• noun a form of leishmaniasis endemic in Mexico and Central American and South America; sores are limited to the skin and mucosa
  nasopharyngeal leishmaniasis; mucocutaneous leishmaniasis; leishmaniasis americana; American leishmaniasis.
  

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• noun hairy-faced arboreal monkeys having widely separated nostrils and long usually prehensile tails
  platyrrhinian; platyrrhine.
  

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• noun a variety of rodent
  

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• noun from Nova Scotia to West Indies and Gulf of Mexico
  Lampris guttatus.
  

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• noun American songbird; male is black and orange or yellow
  American oriole; oriole.
  

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• noun arboreal porcupine
  

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• noun sparrow-like North American finches
  

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• noun a tapir found in South America and Central America
  Tapirus terrestris.
  

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• noun large birds of prey superficially similar to Old World vultures
  cathartid.
  

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• noun small bright-colored American songbird with a weak unmusical song
  wood warbler.
  

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• noun the calendar year just begun
  

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• noun the first day of the year
  New Year's; January 1.
  

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• noun the first day of the year
  New Year's; January 1.
  

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New" Year's` Day"

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1. the first day of a calendar year; the first day of January. Often colloquially abbreviated to New year's or new year.

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• noun the last day of the year
  December 31.
  

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• noun the largest city in New York State and in the United States; located in southeastern New York at the mouth of the Hudson river; a major financial and cultural center
  New York; Greater New York.
  
• noun a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies
  New York; NY; Empire State.
  
• noun one of the British colonies that formed the United States
  

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• noun North American perennial herb having small autumn-blooming purple or pink or white flowers; widely naturalized in Europe
  Aster novi-belgii; Michaelmas daisy.
  

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• noun a bay of the North Atlantic; fed by the Hudson River
  

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• noun the largest city in New York State and in the United States; located in southeastern New York at the mouth of the Hudson river; a major financial and cultural center
  New York; Greater New York.
  

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• noun slender shield fern of moist woods of eastern North America; sometimes placed in genus Dryopteris
  Dryopteris noveboracensis; Parathelypteris novae-boracensis.
  

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• noun a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
  instant; wink; blink of an eye; flash; twinkling; jiffy; heartbeat; split second; trice.
  
  • if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash

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• noun a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies
  New York; NY; Empire State.
  

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• noun a system of canals crossing New York State and connecting the Great Lakes with the Hudson River and Lake Champlain
  

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• noun a stock exchange in New York
  NYSE; big board; N. Y. Stock Exchange.
  

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• noun steak from upper part of the short loin
  strip steak.
  

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• noun a native or resident of New York (especially of New York City)
  

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• noun an independent country within the British Commonwealth; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1907; known for sheep and spectacular scenery
  
• noun North Island and South Island and adjacent small islands in the South Pacific
  New Zealand.
  

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New` Zea"land

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1. A group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean.

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• noun any of several tall New Zealand trees of the genus Nothofagus; some yield useful timber
  

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• noun a fiber from the bast of New Zealand ribbon trees that resembles cotton fiber
  

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• noun New Zealand evergreen valued for its light easily worked wood
  kahikatea; New Zealand Dacryberry; Podocarpus dacrydioides; Dacrycarpus dacrydioides.
  

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• noun bushy New Zealand shrub cultivated for its fragrant white flower heads
  Olearia haastii.
  

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• noun the basic unit of money in New Zealand
  

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• noun slender elegant tree of New Zealand having racemes of red flowers and yielding valuable mottled red timber
  rewa-rewa.
  

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• noun North Island and South Island and adjacent small islands in the South Pacific
  New Zealand.
  

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• noun New Zealand shrub
  Halocarpus bidwilli; tarwood; Dacrydium bidwilli; tar-wood.
  

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• noun coarse sprawling Australasian plant with red or yellow flowers; cultivated for its edible young shoots and succulent leaves
  Tetragonia expansa; Tetragonia tetragonioides.
  

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• noun New Zealand evergreen valued for its light easily worked wood
  kahikatea; New Zealand Dacryberry; Podocarpus dacrydioides; Dacrycarpus dacrydioides.
  

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• noun graceful deciduous shrub or small tree having attractive foliage and small red berries that turn black at maturity and are used for making wine
  makomako; wineberry; Aristotelia racemosa; Aristotelia serrata.
  

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• noun birds of New Zealand that resemble wrens
  

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• noun a native or inhabitant of New Zealand
  Kiwi.
  
• adjective of or relating to or characteristic of New Zealand or its people
  
  • New Zealander sheep farms

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• adjective satellite newly made
  
  • the aroma of new-made bread

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New`-mod"el transitive verb

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1. To remodel.

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• adjective satellite newly mown
  

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• adjective satellite having just or recently arisen or come into existence
  newborn.
  
  • new nations
  • with newborn fears

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New"-year` adjective

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1. Of or pertaining to, or suitable for, the commencement of the year; as, New-year gifts or odes.

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• anew. Obs.

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• noun a parliamentary democracy on the eastern half of the island of New Guinea; in 1975 it became an independent state within the Commonwealth of Nations
  Independent State of Papua New Guinea.
  

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Span"-new` adjective

Etymology

Definitions

1. Quite new; brand-new; fire-new. "A span-new archbishop's chair." Fuller.

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• to make a radical change for the better in one's way of living or doing. Colloq.

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