(Law) An extra fee paid to counsel in a case that has been adjourned from one term to another, or that is unusually protracted. "Ten guineas a day is the highest refresher which a counsel can charge."
... out and got soaking and dripping wet; one of my favourite dissipations. I never enjoy weather so much as when it is driving, drenching, rattling, washing rain. As Mr. Meredith says in the book you gave me, "Rain, O the glad refresher of the grain, and welcome waterspouts of blessed rain." (It is in a poem called "Earth and a Wedded Woman," which is fat.) Seldom have I enjoyed a walk so much. My sister water was all there and most affectionate. ... — Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Maisie Ward
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