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Definition of Free
Pronunciation: frē | a. | 1. | Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's own impulses, desires, or inclinations; determining one's own course of action; not dependent; at liberty. | | 2. | Not under an arbitrary or despotic government; subject only to fixed laws regularly and fairly administered, and defended by them from encroachments upon natural or acquired rights; enjoying political liberty. | | 3. | Liberated, by arriving at a certain age, from the control of parents, guardian, or master. | | 4. | Not confined or imprisoned; released from arrest; liberated; at liberty to go. | | 5. | Not subjected to the laws of physical necessity; capable of voluntary activity; endowed with moral liberty; - said of the will. | | 6. | Clear of offense or crime; guiltless; innocent. | | 7. | Unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved; ingenuous; frank; familiar; communicative. | | 8. | Unrestrained; immoderate; lavish; licentious; - used in a bad sense. | | 9. | Not close or parsimonious; liberal; open-handed; lavish; as, free with his money. | | 10. | Exempt; clear; released; liberated; not encumbered or troubled with; as, free from pain; free from a burden; - followed by from, or, rarely, by of. | | 11. | Characteristic of one acting without restraint; charming; easy. | | 12. | Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited; as, a free horse. | | 13. | Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; - followed by of. | | 14. | 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, a free school. | | 15. | Not gained by importunity or purchase; gratuitous; spontaneous; as, free admission; a free gift. | | 16. | 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. | | 17. | (O. Eng. Law) Certain or honorable; the opposite of base; as, free service; free socage. | | 18. | (Law) Privileged or individual; the opposite of common; as, a free fishery; a free warren. | | 19. | Not united or combined with anything else; separated; dissevered; unattached; at liberty to escape; as, free carbonic acid gas; free cells. | | adv. | 1. | Freely; willingly. | | 2. | Without charge; as, children admitted free. | | v. t. | 1. | 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 from, and sometimes by off; as, to free a captive or a slave; to be freed of these inconveniences. | | 2. | To remove, as something that confines or bars; to relieve from the constraint of. | | 3. | To frank. |
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