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Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(a.) 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):
(superl.) Privileged or individual; the opposite of common; as, a free fishery; a free warren.
(3):
(superl.) Not gained by importunity or purchase; gratuitous; spontaneous; as, free admission; a free gift.
(4):
(superl.) Liberated, by arriving at a certain age, from the control of parents, guardian, or master.
(5):
(superl.) Not confined or imprisoned; released from arrest; liberated; at liberty to go.
(6):
(superl.) Not subjected to the laws of physical necessity; capable of voluntary activity; endowed with moral liberty; - said of the will.
(7):
(superl.) Clear of offense or crime; guiltless; innocent.
(8):
(superl.) Unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved; ingenuous; frank; familiar; communicative.
(9):
(superl.) Unrestrained; immoderate; lavish; licentious; - used in a bad sense.
(10):
(superl.) Not close or parsimonious; liberal; open-handed; lavish; as, free with his money.
(11):
(superl.) Exempt; clear; released; liberated; not encumbered or troubled with; as, free from pain; free from a burden; - followed by from, or, rarely, by of.
(12):
(superl.) Characteristic of one acting without restraint; charming; easy.
(13):
(superl.) Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited; as, a free horse.
(14):
(superl.) Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; - followed by of.
(15):
(superl.) 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.
(16):
(superl.) 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.
(17):
(superl.) 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.
(18):
(superl.) Certain or honorable; the opposite of base; as, free service; free socage.
(19):
(superl.) 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.
(20):
(superl.) Not united or combined with anything else; separated; dissevered; unattached; at liberty to escape; as, free carbonic acid gas; free cells.
(21):
(adv.) Freely; willingly.
(22):
(adv.) Without charge; as, children admitted free.
(23):
(a.) To remove, as something that confines or bars; to relieve from the constraint of.
(24):
(a.) To frank.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Free'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/f/free.html. 1828.
