Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FRESH'EN, v.t. [fresh'n.]

1. To make fresh; to dulcify; to separate, as water from saline particles; to take saltness from any thing; as, to freshen water, fish or flesh.
2. To refresh; to revive. [Not used.] Spenser.
3. In seamen's language, to apply new service to a cable; as, to freshen hawse.