Part 4574

<blockquote>To come thus was I not constrained, but did On my <b>free will</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The power asserted of moral beings of willing or choosing without the restraints of physical or absolute necessity.</def>

<h1>Freewill</h1> <Xpage=594>

<hw>Free"will`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to free will; voluntary; spontaneous; <as>as, a <ex>freewill</ex> offering</as>.</def>

<cs><col>Frewill Baptists</col>. <cd>See under <er>Baptist</er>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Freezable</h1> <Xpage=594>

<hw>Freez"a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Capable of being frozen.</def>

<h1>Freeze</h1> <Xpage=594>

<hw>Freeze</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <def>A frieze.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Freeze</h1> <Xpage=594>

<hw>Freeze</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp.</tt> <er>Froze</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. p.</tt> <er>Frozen</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Freezing</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>fresen</ets>, <ets>freosen</ets>, AS. <ets>fre\'a2san</ets>; akin to D. <ets>vriezen</ets>, OHG. <ets>iosan</ets>, G. <ets>frieren</ets>, Icel. <ets>frjsa</ets>, Sw. <ets>frysa</ets>, Dan. <ets>fryse</ets>, Goth. <ets>frius</ets> cold, frost, and prob. to L. <ets>prurire</ets> to itch, E. <ets>prurient</ets>, cf. L. <ets>prna</ets> a burning coal, <ets>pruina</ets> hoarfrost, Skr. <ets>prushv\'be</ets> ice, <ets>prush</ets> to spirt. <?/ 18. Cf. <er>Frost</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To become congealed by cold; to be changed from a liquid to a solid state by the abstraction of heat; to be hardened into ice or a like solid body.</def>

<note>&hand; Water <i>freezes</i> at 32&deg; above zero by Fahrenheit's thermometer; mercury <i>freezes</i> at 40&deg; below zero.</note>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To become chilled with cold, or as with cold; to suffer loss of animation or life by lack of heat; <as>as, the blood <ex>freezes</ex> in the veins</as>.</def>

<cs><col>To freeze up</col> (<mark>Fig<mark>.), <cd>to become formal and cold in demeanor. <mark>[Colloq.]</mark></cd></cs>

<h1>Freeze</h1> <Xpage=594>

<hw>Freeze</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To congeal; to harden into ice; to convert from a fluid to a solid form by cold, or abstraction of heat.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.</def>

<blockquote>A faint, cold fear runs through my veins, That almost <b>freezes</b> up the heat of life. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Freeze</h1> <Xpage=594>

<hw>Freeze</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act of congealing, or the state of being congealed.</def> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark>

<h1>Freezer</h1> <Xpage=594>

<hw>Freez"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who, or that which, cools or freezes, as a refrigerator, or the tub and can used in the process of freezing ice cream.</def>

<h1>Freezing</h1> <Xpage=594>

<hw>Freez"ing</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Tending to freeze; for freezing; hence, cold or distant in manner.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>Frrez"ing*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt></wordforms>

<cs><col>Freezing machine</col>. <cd>See <cref>Ice machine</cref>, under <er>Ice</er>.</cd> -- <col>Freezing mixture</col>, <cd>a mixture (of salt and snow or of chemical salts) for producing intense cold.</cd> -- <col>Freezing point</col>, <cd>that degree of a thermometer at which a fluid begins to freeze; -- applied particularly to water, whose <ex>freezing point<ex> is at 32&deg; Fahr., and at 0&deg; Centigrade.</cd></cs>

<h1>Freieslebenite</h1> <Xpage=594>

<hw>Frei"es*le`ben*ite</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Named after the German chemist <ets>Freiesleben</ets>.]</ety> <def>A sulphide of antimony, lead, and silver, occuring in monoclinic crystals.</def>

<h1>Freight</h1> <Xpage=594>