The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

New \New\ (n[=u]), a. [Compar. Newer (n[=u]"[~e]r); superl.
   Newest.] [OE. OE. newe, AS. niwe, neowe; akin to D. nieuw,
   OS. niwi, OHG. niuwi, G. neu, Icel. n[=y]r, Dan. & Sw. ny,
   Goth. niujis, Lith. naujas, Russ. novuii, Ir. nua, nuadh,
   Gael. nuadh, W. newydd, Armor. nevez, L. novus, Gr. ne`os,
   Skr. nava, and prob. to E. now. [root]263. See Now, and cf.
   Announce, Innovate, Neophyte, Novel.]
   1. Having existed, or having been made, but a short time;
      having originated or occured lately; having recently come
      into existence, or into one's possession; not early or
      long in being; of late origin; recent; fresh; modern; --
      opposed to old, as, a new coat; a new house; a new book;
      a new fashion. "Your new wife." --Chaucer.
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   2. Not before seen or known, although existing before; lately
      manifested; recently discovered; as, a new metal; a new
      planet; new scenes.
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   3. Newly beginning or recurring; starting anew; now
      commencing; different from what has been; as, a new year;
      a new course or direction.
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   4. As if lately begun or made; having the state or quality of
      original freshness; also, changed for the better;
      renovated; unworn; untried; unspent; as, rest and travel
      made him a new man.
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            Steadfasty purposing to lead a new life. --Bk. of
                                                  Com. Prayer.
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            Men after long emaciating diets, fat, and almost
            new.                                  --Bacon.
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   5. Not of ancient extraction, or of a family of ancient
      descent; not previously known or famous. --Addison.
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   6. Not habituated; not familiar; unaccustomed.
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            New to the plow, unpracticed in the trace. --Pope.
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   7. Fresh from anything; newly come.
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            New from her sickness to that northern air.
                                                  --Dryden.
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   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 cleared and cultivated for the first time.


   New light. (Zool.) 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.
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   Syn: Novel; recent; fresh; modern. See Novel.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

New \New\ (n[=u]), adv.
   Newly; recently. --Chaucer.
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   Note: New is much used in composition, adverbially, in the
         sense of newly, recently, to qualify other words, as in
         new-born, new-formed, new-found, new-mown.
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   Of new, anew. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

New \New\, v. t. & i.
   To make new; to renew. [Obs.]
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

new
    adv 1: very recently; "they are newly married"; "newly raised
           objections"; "a newly arranged hairdo"; "grass new washed
           by the rain"; "a freshly cleaned floor"; "we are fresh
           out of tomatoes" [syn: newly, freshly, fresh,
           new]
    adj 1: not of long duration; having just (or relatively
           recently) come into being or been made or acquired or
           discovered; "a new law"; "new cars"; "a new comet"; "a
           new friend"; "a new year"; "the New World" [ant: old]
    2: original and of a kind not seen before; "the computer
       produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem"
       [syn: fresh, new, novel]
    3: lacking training or experience; "the new men were eager to
       fight"; "raw recruits" [syn: raw, new]
    4: having no previous example or precedent or parallel; "a time
       of unexampled prosperity" [syn: new, unexampled]
    5: other than the former one(s); different; "they now have a new
       leaders"; "my new car is four years old but has only 15,000
       miles on it"; "ready to take a new direction"
    6: unaffected by use or exposure; "it looks like new" [ant:
       worn]
    7: (of a new kind or fashion) gratuitously new; "newfangled
       ideas"; "she buys all these new-fangled machines and never
       uses them" [syn: newfangled, new]
    8: in use after medieval times; "New Eqyptian was the language
       of the 18th to 21st dynasties"
    9: used of a living language; being the current stage in its
       development; "Modern English"; "New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew"
       [syn: Modern, New]
    10: (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development;
        before complete maturity; "new potatoes"; "young corn" [syn:
        new, young]
    11: unfamiliar; "new experiences"; "experiences new to him";
        "errors of someone new to the job"

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

151 Moby Thesaurus words for "new":
   ab ovo, accessory, actual, added, additional, afresh, again,
   all the rage, all the thing, ancillary, anew, another,
   another time, as is, as new, authentic, auxiliary, avant-garde,
   being, bis, callow, collateral, contemporaneous, contemporary,
   contributory, creative, current, de novo, dewy, else, encore,
   ever-new, evergreen, existent, existing, extant, extra, farther,
   fashionable, first-hand, firsthand, fledgling, fresh, freshly,
   from scratch, further, green, held back, held in reserve, held out,
   hip, imaginative, immanent, immature, immediate, in abeyance,
   in fashion, in hand, in style, in vogue, independent, instant,
   intact, lately, latest, maiden, maidenly, mint, mod, modern,
   modernistic, more, neoteric, nestling, new-fashioned, newfangled,
   newfashioned, newly, novel, of late, once again, once more,
   original, other, over again, plus, popular, present, present-age,
   present-day, present-time, prevalent, primary, pristine, put aside,
   put by, raw, recent, recently, regenerated, reinvigorated, renewed,
   reserve, revived, revolutionary, running, saved, sempervirent,
   smart, spare, stored, strange, supernumerary, supplemental,
   supplementary, surplus, suspended, that be, that is, to spare,
   topical, trendy, ulterior, unaccustomed, unapplied, unbeaten,
   unconsumed, underived, undeveloped, unemployed, unexercised,
   unexpended, unfledged, unhandled, unique, unspent, untapped,
   untouched, untried, untrodden, unused, unutilized, up-to-date,
   up-to-datish, up-to-the-minute, vernal, virgin, virginal, waived,
   yet again, young



Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):

NEW or NOVEL ASSIGNMENT, pleading. Declarations are conceived in very
general terms, and sometimes, from the nature of the action, are so framed
as to be capable of covering several injuries. The effect of this is, that,
in some cases, the defendant is not sufficiently guided by the declaration
to the real cause of complaint; and is, therefore, led to apply his answer
to a different matter from that which the plaintiff has in view. For
example, it may happen that the plaintiff has, been twice assaulted by the
defendant, and one of the assaults is justifiable, being in self-defence,
while the other may have been committed without legal excuse. Supposing the
plaintiff to bring an action for the latter; from the generality of the
statement in the declaration, the defendant is not informed to which of the
two assaults the plaintiff means to refer. The defendant may, therefore,
suppose, or affect to suppose, that the first is the assault intended, and
will plead son assault demesne. This plea the plaintiff cannot safely
traverse, because an assault was in fact committed by the defendant, under
the, circumstances of excuse here alleged; the defendant would have a right
under the issue joined upon such traverse, to prove these circumstances, and
to presume that such assault, and no other, was the cause of action. The
plaintiff, therefore, in the supposed case, not being able safely to
traverse, and having no ground either for demurrer, or for pleading in
confession and avoidance, has no course, but, by a new pleading, to correct
the mistake occasioned by the generality of the declaration, and to declare
that he brought his action not for the first but for the second assault and
this is called a new assignment. Steph. PI. 241-243.
     2. As the object of a new assignment is to correct a mistake occasioned
by the generality of the declaration, it always occurs in answer to a plea,
and is therefore in the nature of a replication. It is not used in any other
part of the pleading.
     3. Several new assignments may occur in the course of the same series
of pleading.
     4. Thus in the above example, if it be supposed that three distinct
assaults had been committed, two of which were justifiable, the defendant
might plead as above to the declaration, and 'then, by way of plea to the
new assignment,, he might again justify, in the same manner, another
assault; upon which it would be necessary for the plaintiff to new-assign a
third; and this upon the first principle by which the first new assignment
was required. 1 Chit. PI. 614; 1 Saund. 299 c.
     5. A new assignment is said to be in the nature of a new declaration.
Bac. Abr. Trespass I, 4, 2; 1 Saund. 299 c. It seems, however, more properly
considered as a repetition of the declaration; 1 Chit. PI. 602; differing
only in this, that it distinguishes the true ground of complaint, as being
different from that which is covered by the plea. Being in the nature of a
new or repeated declaration, it is consequently to be framed with as much
certainty or specification of circumstances, as the declaration itself. In
some cases, indeed, it should be even more particular. Bac. Abr. Trespass, I
4, 2; 1 Chitt. Pl. 610; Steph. Pl. 245. See 3 Bl. Com. 311; Arch. Civ. 318;
Lawes' Civ. PI. Pl. 286; Doct. Pl. 318; Lawes' Civ. Pl. 163.