·adv Freely; willingly.
II. Free ·adj To Frank.
III. Free ·adv Without charge; as, children admitted free.
IV. Free ·superl Clear of offense or crime; guiltless; innocent.
V. Free ·superl Characteristic of one acting without restraint; charming; easy.
VI. Free ·superl Unrestrained; immoderate; lavish; licentious;
— used in a bad sense.
VII. Free ·superl Certain or honorable; the opposite of base; as, free service; free socage.
VIII. Free ·adj To remove, as something that confines or bars; to relieve from the constraint of.
IX. Free ·superl Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited; as, a free horse.
X. Free ·superl Not confined or imprisoned; released from arrest; liberated; at liberty to go.
XI. Free ·superl Not close or parsimonious; liberal; open-handed; lavish; as, free with his money.
XII. Free ·superl Privileged or individual; the opposite of common; as, a free fishery; a free warren.
XIII. Free ·superl Liberated, by arriving at a certain age, from the control of parents, guardian, or master.
XIV. Free ·superl Unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved; ingenuous; frank; familiar; communicative.
XV. Free ·superl Not gained by importunity or purchase; gratuitous; spontaneous; as, free admission; a free gift.
XVI. Free ·superl Not subjected to the laws of physical necessity; capable of voluntary activity; endowed with moral liberty;
— said of the will.
XVII. Free ·superl Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights;
— followed by of.
XVIII. Free ·superl Not united or combined with anything else; separated; dissevered; unattached; at liberty to escape; as, free carbonic acid gas; free cells.
XIX. Free ·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.
XX. Free ·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.
XXI. Free ·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.
XXII. Free ·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.
XXIII. Free ·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.
XXIV. Free ·adj 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.