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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.
  
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