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 Fresh·en v. t. [imp. & p. p. Freshened p. pr. & vb. n. Freshening ]
 1. To make fresh; to separate, as water, from saline ingredients; to make less salty; as, to freshen water, fish, or flesh.
 2. To refresh; to revive. [Obs.]
 3. Naut. To relieve, as a rope, by change of place where friction wears it; or to renew, as the material used to prevent chafing; as, to freshen a hawse.
 To freshen ballast Naut., to shift Or restore it.
 To freshen the hawse, to pay out a little more cable, so as to bring the chafe on another part.
 To freshen the way, to increase the speed of a vessel.

 Hawse n.
 1. A hawse hole.
 2. Naut. (a) The situation of the cables when a vessel is moored with two anchors, one on the starboard, the other on the port bow. (b) The distance ahead to which the cables usually extend; as, the ship has a clear or open hawse, or a foul hawse; to anchor in our hawse, or athwart hawse. (c) That part of a vessel's bow in which are the hawse holes for the cables.
 Athwart hawse. See under Athwart.
 Foul hawse, a hawse in which the cables cross each other, or are twisted together.
 Hawse block, a block used to stop up a hawse hole at sea; -- called also hawse plug.
 Hawse piece, one of the foremost timbers of a ship, through which the hawse hole is cut.
 Hawse plug. Same as Hawse block (above).
 To come in at the hawse holes, to enter the naval service at the lowest grade. [Cant]
 To freshen the hawse, to veer out a little more cable and bring the chafe and strain on another part.
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