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Select
·adj Taken from a number by preferance; picked out as more valuable or exellent than others; of spec...

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select
v. i.q. free-select (q.v.). ...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
Free
·adv Freely; willingly. II. Free ·adj To <<Frank>>. III. Free ·adv Without charge; as, children ad...

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free
Free of fumblers hall; a saying of one who cannot get his wife with child. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
free
A vessel is said to be going free when the bowlines are slacked and the sheets eased; beyond this is...

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Fancy-free
·adj Free from the power of love. ...

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Free coinage
·add. ·- In the fullest sense, the conversion of bullion (of any specified metal) into legal-tender ...

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Free silver
·add. ·- The free coinage of silver; often, specif., the free coinage of silver at a fixed ratio wit...

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Free will
·- A will free from improper coercion or restraint. ...

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Free-denizen
·vt To make free. ...

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Free-hand
·adj Done by the hand, without support, or the guidance of instruments; as, free-hand drawing. ·see ...

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Free-handed
·adj Open-handed; liberal. ...

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Free-hearted
·adj Open; frank; unreserved; liberal; generous; as, free-hearted mirth. ...

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Free-liver
·noun One who gratifies his appetites without stint; one given to indulgence in eating and drinking....

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Free-living
·noun Unrestrained indulgence of the appetites. ...

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Free-love
·noun The doctrine or practice of consorting with the opposite sex, at pleasure, without marriage. ...

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Free-lover
·noun One who believes in or practices free-love. ...

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Free-martin
·noun An imperfect female calf, twinborn with a male. ...

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Free-milling
·adj Yielding free gold or silver; — said of certain ores which can be reduced by crushing and amal...

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Free-minded
·adj Not perplexed; having a mind free from care. ...

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Free-soil
·adj Pertaining to, or advocating, the non-extension of slavery; — ·esp. applied to a party which w...

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Free-spoken
·adj Accustomed to speak without reserve. ...

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Free-swimming
·adj Swimming in the open sea; — said of certain marine animals. ...

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Free-tongued
·adj Speaking without reserve. ...

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Scot-free
·adj Free from payment of scot; untaxed; hence, unhurt; clear; safe. ...

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Shot-free
·adj Not to be injured by shot; shot-proof. II. Shot-free ·adj Free from charge or expense; hence, ...

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Free-Bench
In the will of Anketin de Betteville occurs the expression "saving to Matilda his wife her free benc...

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
free booters
Lawless robbers and plunderers: originally soldiers who served without pay, for the privilege of plu...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
free-selection
n. 1) The process of selectingor choosing land under the Land Laws, or the right to choose.Abbrevia...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
free-selector
n. (abbreviated often to Selector), one who takes up a block of Crown land underthe Land Laws and b...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
bilge-free
A cask so stowed as to rest entirely on its beds, keeping the lower part of the bilge at least the t...

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free, to
♦ To free a prisoner. To restore him to liberty. ♦ To free a pump. To disengage or clear it. ♦ T...

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free-board
See plank-sheer. ...

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free port
Ports open to all comers free of entry-dues, as places of call, not delivery. ...

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free ship
A piratical term for one where it is agreed that every man shall have an equal share in all prizes. ...

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free trader
Ships trading formerly under license to India independent of the old East India Company's charter. A...

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going free
When the bowlines are slackened, or sailing with the wind abeam. ...

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wreck-free
Is to be exempt from the forfeiture of shipwrecked goods and vessels: a privilege which Edward I. gr...

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Free-will offering
A spontaneous gift (Ex. 35:29), a voluntary sacrifice (Lev. 22:23; Ezra 3:5), as opposed to one in c...

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Metropolitan Free Hospital
On the east side of Devonshire Square (O.S. 1880). In Bishopsgate Ward Without. The site was former...

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free and easy johns
A society which meet at the Hole in the Wall, Fleet-street, to tipple porter, and sing bawdry. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
queen anne's free gift
A sum of money formerly granted to surgeons annually, in addition to their monthly twopences from ea...

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bung-up and bilge-free
A cask so placed that its bung-stave is uppermost, and it rests entirely on its beds. ...

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make free with the land, to
To approach the shore closely. ...

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