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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Free \Free\ (fr[=e]), a. [Compar. {Freer} (-[~e]r); superl.
{Freest} (-[e^]st).] [OE. fre, freo, AS fre['o], fr[=i];
akin to D. vrij, OS & OHG. fr[=i], G. frei, Icel. fr[=i],
Sw & Dan. fri, Goth. freis, and also to Skr. prija beloved,
dear, fr pr[=i] to love, Goth. frij[=o]n. Cf {Affray},
{Belfry}, {Friday}, {Friend}, {Frith} inclosure.]
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.
That which has the power, or not the power, to
operate, is that alone which is or is not free
--Locke.
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
Set an unhappy prisoner free --Prior.
5. Not subjected to the laws of physical necessity; capable
of voluntary activity; endowed with moral liberty; -- said
of the will
Not free what proof could they have given sincere
Of true allegiance, constant faith, or love.
--Milton.
6. Clear of offense or crime; guiltless; innocent.
My hands are guilty, but my heart is free --Dryden.
7. Unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved;
ingenuous; frank; familiar; communicative.
He was free only with a few --Milward.
8. Unrestrained; immoderate; lavish; licentious; -- used in a
bad sense
The critics have been very free in their censures.
--Felton.
A man may live a free life as to wine or women.
--Shelley.
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
Princes declaring themselves free from the
obligations of their treaties. --Bp. Burnet.
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
He therefore makes all birds, of every sect, Free
of his farm. --Dryden.
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.
Why, sir, I pray, are not the streets as free For
me as for you? --Shak.
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. --Burrill.
18. (Law) Privileged or individual; the opposite of common;
as a free fishery; a free warren. --Burrill.
19. Not united or combined with anything else; separated;
dissevered; unattached; at liberty to escape; as free
carbonic acid gas; free cells.
{Free agency}, the capacity or power of choosing or acting
freely, or without necessity or constraint upon the will
{Free bench} (Eng. Law), a widow's right in the copyhold
lands of her husband, corresponding to dower in freeholds.
{Free board} (Naut.), a vessel's side between water line and
gunwale.
{Free bond} (Chem.), an unsaturated or unemployed unit, or
bond, of affinity or valence, of an atom or radical.
{Free-borough men} (O.Eng. Law). See {Friborg}.
{Free chapel} (Eccles.), a chapel not subject to the
jurisdiction of the ordinary, having been founded by the
king or by a subject specially authorized. [Eng.]
--Bouvier.
{Free charge} (Elec.), a charge of electricity in the free or
statical condition; free electricity.
{Free church}.
a A church whose sittings are for all and without
charge.
b An ecclesiastical body that left the Church of
Scotland, in 1843, to be free from control by the
government in spiritual matters.
{Free city}, or {Free town}, a city or town independent in
its government and franchises, as formerly those of the
Hanseatic league.
{Free cost}, freedom from charges or expenses. --South.
{Free and easy}, unconventional; unrestrained; regardless of
formalities. [Colloq.] ``Sal and her free and easy ways.''
--W. Black.
{Free goods}, goods admitted into a country free of duty.
{Free labor}, the labor of freemen, as distinguished from
that of slaves.
{Free port}. (Com.)
a A port where goods may be received and shipped free
of custom duty.
b A port where goods of all kinds are received from
ships of all nations at equal rates of duty.
{Free public house}, in England, a tavern not belonging to a
brewer, so that the landlord is free to brew his own beer
or purchase where he chooses. --Simmonds.
{Free school}.
a A school to which pupils are admitted without
discrimination and on an equal footing.
b A school supported by general taxation, by
endowmants etc., where pupils pay nothing for
tuition; a public school.
{Free services} (O.Eng. Law), such feudal services as were
not unbecoming the character of a soldier or a freemen to
perform; as to serve under his lord in war, to pay a sum
of money, etc --Burrill.
{Free ships}, ships of neutral nations, which in time of war
are free from capture even though carrying enemy's goods.
{Free socage} (O.Eng. Law), a feudal tenure held by certain
services which though honorable, were not military.
--Abbott.
{Free States}, those of the United States before the Civil
War, in which slavery had ceased to exist, or had never
existed.
{Free stuff} (Carp.), timber free from knots; clear stuff.
{Free thought}, that which is thought independently of the
authority of others
{Free trade}, commerce unrestricted by duties or tariff
regulations.
{Free trader}, one who believes in free trade
{To make free with}, to take liberties with to help one's
self to [Colloq.]
{To sail free} (Naut.), to sail with the yards not braced in
as sharp as when sailing closehauled, or close to the
wind.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Freer \Fre"er\, n.
One who frees, or sets free
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Freer, TX (city, FIPS 27432)
Location: 27.88142 N, 98.61822 W
Population (1990): 3271 (1308 housing units)
Area: 10.4 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 78357
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