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new-laid, ppl. a.
[new a. 3.]
Of eggs: Newly or freshly laid.
1528Paynell Salerne's Regim. F j b, Dyuers nouryshynge meates. The fyrst are newe layde egges. 1563T. Hill Art Garden (1593) 101 Against the dropsie, take a new laid Eg. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. i. 39 Lovely Virgins..as white as new-lay'd Eggs. 1706E. Ward Wooden World Diss. (1708) 63 There's no Bolus to him comparable to a new-laid Egg. 1782Cowper Fable 2 Her new-laid eggs she fondly pressed. 1881Besant & Rice Chapl. of Fleet i. v, Like fresh butter and new-laid eggs. |