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Free
·adv Freely; willingly.
II. Free ·adj To <<Frank>>.
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free
Free of fumblers hall; a saying of one who cannot get his wife with child.
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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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Shot
·pl of Shot.
II. Shot ·- imp. & ·p.p. of Shoot.
III. Shot ·vt To load with shot, as a gun.
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shot
To pay one's shot; to pay one's share of a reckoning. Shot betwixt wind and water; poxed or clapped....
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shot
Another pronunciation of the word scot, a reckoning.
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shot
All sorts of missiles to be discharged from fire-arms, those for great guns being mainly of iron; fo...
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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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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.
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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
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free-select
v. to take up land under the LandLaws. See Free-selector. This composite verb, derivedfrom the noun,...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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free-selection
n.
1) The process of selectingor choosing land under the Land Laws, or the right to choose.Abbrevia...
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free-selector
n.
(abbreviated often to Selector), one who takes up a block of Crown land underthe Land Laws and b...
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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.
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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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Anchor shot
·add. ·- A shot made with the object balls in an anchor space.
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Burrel shot
·- A mixture of shot, nails, stones, pieces of old iron, ·etc., fired from a cannon at short range, ...
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Case shot
·- A collection of small projectiles, inclosed in a case or canister.
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Flight-shot
·noun The distance to which an arrow or flight may be shot; bowshot, — about the fifth of a mile.
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Headmold shot
·- ·Alt. of Headmould shot.
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Headmould shot
·- An old name for the condition of the skull, in which the bones ride, or are shot, over each other...
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Masse shot
·noun A stroke made with the cue held vertically.
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Pot shot
·add. ·- Lit., a shot fired simply to fill the pot; hence, a shot fired at an animal or person when ...
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Shot samples
·add. ·- Samples taken for assay from a molten metallic mass pouring a portion into water, to granul...
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Shot-clog
·noun A person tolerated only because he pays the shot, or reckoning, for the rest of the company, o...
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Shot-proof
·adj Impenetrable by shot.
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Sight-shot
·noun Distance to which the sight can reach or be thrown.
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Snap shot
·add. ·- Act of taking a snapshot (in sense 2).
II. Snap shot ·add. ·- A quick offhand shot, made w...
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Split shot
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Split stroke.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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buck-shot
n.
a settlers' term for ageological formation. See quotation.
1851. `The Australasian Quarterly,' ...
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shanghai-shot
n.
a short distance,a stone's-throw.
1874. Garnet Walch, `Head over Heels' [Introduction toTottlep...
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by a long shot
By a long way; by a great deal.
Mr. Divver offered a resolution summarily removing the superintende...
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slung-shot
An offensive weapon formed of two leaden or iron bullets fastened together by a piece of rope five o...
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shot-flagon
the host's pot, given where the guests have drank above a shilling's worth of ale. Derb.
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angel-shot
A ball cut in two, and the halves joined by a chain.
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canister shot
See case-shot, common.
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chain-shot
Two balls connected either by a bar or chain, for cutting and destroying the spars and rigging of an...
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chilled shot
Shot of very rapidly cooled cast-iron, i.e. cast in iron moulds, and thus found to acquire a hardnes...
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ear-shot
The distance or range of hearing.
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eye-shot
Within sight.
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fresh shot
A river swollen by rain or tributaries; it also signifies the falling down of any great river into t...
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gun-shot
Formerly, the distance up to which a gun would throw a shot direct to its mark, without added elevat...
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hail-shot
Small shot for cannon.
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hollow shot
Introduced principally for naval use before the horizontal firing of shells from guns became general...
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hot-shot
Balls made red-hot in a furnace. Amongst the savages in Bergou, the women are in the rear of the com...
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long-shot
A distant range. It is also used to express a long way; a far-fetched explanation; something incredi...
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musket-shot
Was the computed distance of 400 yards, now undergoing change.
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random shot
A shot, or coup perdu, made when the muzzle is highly elevated; the utmost range may be at an angle ...
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round shot
The cast-iron balls fitting the bores of their respective guns, as distinguished from grape or other...
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sand-shot
Those cast in moulds of sand, when economy is of more importance than form or hardness; the small ba...
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shot-locker
A compartment built up in the hold to contain the shot.
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shot-net
A mackerel-net.
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shot-plugs
Tapered cones to stop any sized shot-hole.
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shot-racks
Wooden frames fixed at convenient distances to contain shot.
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spent shot
A shot that has lost its penetrative velocity, yet capable of inflicting grave injury as long as it ...
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tier-shot
That kind of grapeshot which is secured in tiers by parallel iron discs.
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trundle-shot
An iron bolt 16 or 18 inches long, with sharp points, and a ball of lead just inside each head.
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quarter-shot
See water-shot
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water-shot
, or quarter-shot.
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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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case-shot, common
Called also canister-shot. Adapted for close quarters if the enemy be uncovered. It consists of a nu...
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cross-bar-shot
The famed cross-bar-shot, or properly bar-shot, used by the Americans: when folded it presented a ba...
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double-headed shot
Differing from bar-shot by being similar to dumb-bells, only the shot are hemispherical.
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spherical case-shot
See shrapnel shell.
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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.
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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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shot in the neck
Drunk. A Southern phrase.
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throw of the shot
See dispart of the shot
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dispart, or throw of the shot
The difference between the semi-diameter of the base-ring at the breech of a gun, and that of the ri...
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flight of a shot
The trajectory formed between the muzzle of the gun and the first graze.
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moor quarter-shot, to
To moor quartering, between the two ways of across and along.
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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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