Part 4569

<p><b>10.</b> <def>Exempt; clear; released; liberated; not encumbered or troubled with; <as>as, <ex>free</ex> from pain; <ex>free</ex> from a burden</as>; -- followed by <i>from</i>, or, rarely, by <i>of</i>.</def>

<blockquote>Princes declaring themselves <b>free</b> from the obligations of their treaties. <i>Bp. Burnet.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>11.</b> <def>Characteristic of one acting without restraint; charming; easy.</def>

<p><b>12.</b> <def>Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited; <as>as, a <ex>free</ex> horse</as>.</def>

<p><b>13.</b> <def>Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; -- followed by <i>of</i>.</def>

<blockquote>He therefore makes all birds, of every sect, <b>Free</b> of his farm. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>14.</b> <def>Thrown open, or made accessible, to all; to be enjoyed without limitations; unrestricted; not obstructed, engrossed, or appropriated; open; -- said of a thing to be possessed or enjoyed; <as>as, a <ex>free</ex> school</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Why, sir, I pray, are not the streets as <b>free</b> For me as for you? <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>15.</b> <def>Not gained by importunity or purchase; gratuitous; spontaneous; <as>as, <ex>free</ex> admission; a <ex>free</ex> gift.</as></def>

<p><b>16.</b> <def>Not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending individual rights against encroachment by any person or class; instituted by a free people; -- said of a government, institutions, etc.</def>

<p><b>17.</b> <fld>(O. Eng. Law)</fld> <def>Certain or honorable; the opposite of <i>base</i>; <as>as, <ex>free</ex> service; <ex>free</ex> socage.</as></def>

<i>Burrill.</i>

<p><b>18.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>Privileged or individual; the opposite of <i>common</i>; <as>as, a <ex>free</ex> fishery; a <ex>free</ex> warren.</as></def>

<i>Burrill.</i>

<p><b>19.</b> <def>Not united or combined with anything else; separated; dissevered; unattached; at liberty to escape; <as>as, <ex>free</ex> carbonic acid gas; <ex>free</ex> cells.</as></def>

<cs><col>Free agency</col>, <cd>the capacity or power of choosing or acting freely, or without necessity or constraint upon the will.</cd> -- <col>Free bench</col> <fld>(Eng. Law)</fld>, <cd>a widow's right in the copyhold lands of her husband, corresponding to <i>dower<i> in freeholds.</cd> -- <col>Free board</col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>a vessel's side between water line and gunwale.</cd> -- <col>Free bond</col> <fld>(Chem.)</fld>, <cd>an unsaturated or unemployed unit, or bond, of affinity or valence, of an atom or radical.</cd> -- <col>Free-borough men</col> <fld>(O.Eng. Law)</fld>. <cd>See <er>Friborg</er>.</cd> -- <col>Free chapel</col> <fld>(Eccles.)</fld>, <cd>a chapel not subject to the jurisdiction of the ordinary, having been founded by the king or by a subject specially authorized.</cd> <mark>[Eng.]</mark> <i>Bouvier.</i> -- <col>Free charge</col> <fld>(Elec.)</fld>, <cd>a charge of electricity in the free or statical condition; free electricity.</cd> -- <col>Free church</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>A church whose sittings are for all and without charge.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>An ecclesiastical body that left the Church of Scotland, in 1843, to be free from control by the government in spiritual matters.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Free city</col>, &or; <col>Free town</col></mcol>, <cd>a city or town independent in its government and franchises, as formerly those of the Hanseatic league.</cd> -- <col>Free cost</col>, <cd>freedom from charges or expenses.</cd> <i>South.</i> -- <col>Free and easy</col>, <cd>unconventional; unrestrained; regardless of formalities.</cd> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark> "Sal and her <i>free and easy<i> ways." <i>W. Black.</i> -- <col>Free goods</col>, <cd>goods admitted into a country free of duty.</cd> -- <col>Free labor</col>, <cd>the labor of freemen, as distinguished from that of slaves.</cd> -- <col>Free port</col>. <fld>(Com.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>A port where goods may be received and shipped free of custom duty.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>A port where goods of all kinds are received from ships of all nations at equal rates of duty.</cd> -- <col>Free public house</col>, <cd>in England, a tavern not belonging to a brewer, so that the landlord is free to brew his own beer or purchase where he chooses.</cd> <i>Simmonds.</i> -- <col>Free school</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>A school to which pupils are admitted without discrimination and on an equal footing.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>A school supported by general taxation, by endowmants, etc., where pupils pay nothing for tuition; a public school.</cd> -- <col>Free services</col> <fld>(O.Eng. Law)</fld>, <cd>such feudal services as were not unbecoming the character of a soldier or a freemen to perform; as, to serve under his lord in war, to pay a sum of money, etc.</cd> <i>Burrill.</i> -- <col>Free ships</col>, <cd>ships of neutral nations, which in time of war are free from capture even though carrying enemy's goods.</cd> -- <col>Free socage</col> <fld>(O.Eng. Law)</fld>, <cd>a feudal tenure held by certain services which, though honorable, were not military.</cd> <i>Abbott.</i> -- <col>Free States</col>, <cd>those of the United States before the Civil War, in which slavery had ceased to exist, or had never existed.</cd> -- <col>Free stuff</col> <fld>(Carp.)</fld>, <cd>timber free from knots; clear stuff.</cd> -- <col>Free thought</col>, <cd>that which is thought independently of the authority of others.</cd> -- <col>Free trade</col>, <cd>commerce unrestricted by duties or tariff regulations.</cd> -- <col>Free trader</col>, <cd>one who believes in free trade.</cd> -- <col>To make free with</col>, <cd>to take liberties with; to help one's self to.</cd> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark> -- <col>To sail free</col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>to sail with the yards not braced in as sharp as when sailing closehauled, or close to the wind.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Free</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Freely; willingly.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>I as <b>free</b> forgive you As I would be forgiven. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Without charge; <as>as, children admitted <ex>free</ex></as>.</def>

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<hw>Free</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Freed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Freeing</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>freen</ets>, <ets>freoien</ets>, AS. <ets>fre\'a2gan</ets>. See <er>Free</er>, <tt>a.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To make free; to set at liberty; to rid of that which confines, limits, embarrasses, oppresses, etc.; to release; to disengage; to clear; -- followed by <i>from</i>, and sometimes by <i>off</i>; <as>as, to <ex>free</ex> a captive or a slave; to be <ex>freed</ex> of these inconveniences.</as></def>

<i>Clarendon.</i>

<blockquote>Our land is from the rage of tigers <b>freed</b>. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Arise, . . . <b>free</b> thy people from their yoke. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To remove, as something that confines or bars; to relieve from the constraint of.</def>

<blockquote>This master key <b>Frees</b> every lock, and leads us to his person. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To frank.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>