Freebooting

free'-boot-ing, s. plunder; pillaging: a. living by freebooting. Free-thinker, FREE-THINKER ] free'-boo-te, s. the pillage or plunder obtained by freebooters. free'-born, a. born free; not in va alage. free'-tshap-el, s. a chapel founded by the king, and not subject to the jurisdiction of the ordinary. See Frank-chase. free'-tshurtsh, s. an ecclesiastical body in Scotland, which was founded by those who left the Established Church in 1843, on the ground that they were not held by the civil courts to be at liberty in their connexion with the State, as they maintained they were, to enforce certain obligations which they considered lay on them as a church of Christ, to whom, and not to the State, they declared they were as a church subject. free-tshurtsh'-izm, s. the distinctive principle or principles of the Free-church. frec'-sit-e, or Free-town, free'-town, s. a name given to certain cities, principally of Germany,which were really small republics, directly connected with the German Empire. free' -kost, s. freedom from charges. freed'-man, s. a man who has been a slave and is manumitted. free'-dom, s. the state of being free; a state of exemption from the power or control of another; liberty; exemption from slavery, servitude, or confinement; franchise; immunity; exemption from fate, nece ity, or any constraint, in consequence of predetermination or otherwise; ease or facility of doing anything; frankne ; licence; improper familiarity. free-fish'-er-e, s. a royal franchise or exclusive privilege of fishing in a public river [Law]. a.not restrained in marching. free'-grase, s. grace dispensed at one's good free'-hand, s.drawing freely with the hand guided by the eye alone. free' -hand-ed, a. liberal in giving. liberal; generous. Free-heartedly, free-här'-ted-le, ad. in a free-hearted manner. Free-hearted ne , free-här'-ted-nes, s. the quality of being free-hearted. free'-hoald, s. the land or tenement which is held in fec-simple, fee-tail, or for term of life. free'-holed-er, s. the po e or of freehold. free'-lans, s. one of a company farmed men who in the middle ages sold their services to fight on any side in a quarrel; one who takes a side in any controversy on his own account and not as a pledged partizan. free-liv'-er, s. one who indulges his appetite for eating and drinking freely. free-liv'-ing, s. full gratification of the appetite. free'-luv, s. free sexual intercourse at the dictates of affection, without restraint of marriage obligation, as argued for by some in the United States. free'-man, s. one who is free or enjoys liberty; one who enjoys a franchise or peculiar privilege. free'-märtin, s. an imperfect female calf, twin with amale. free-ma' -sn, s. one of an ancient and secret fraternity, said to have originated in the middle ages, and been at first composed of certain privileged guilds of masons or builders in stone,but now consisting of persons who are united for social enjoyment and mutual a istance. free-ma' -sn-re, s. the institutions, craft, ., of freemasons. free - mind'-ed, a. not perplexed; free from care. free'-pas, s. privilege of travelling by a conveyance free of charge. free'-port, s. a port where ships of all nations may load and unload free ofduty. free'-er, s. one who gives freedom. school, free'-skool, s. a school supported by funds, in which pupils are taught gratis; a school open to admit pupils without restriction. free -sok-aje, s. common socage; free tenure of lands [Law]. free'-soil, a. opposed to the extension of slavery, into new territory [U.S.] free-spo'-kn, a. accustomed to speak without reserve. Free-spoken ne , free-spo'-kn-ne , s. the quality of being free-spoken. free'-state, s. a state in which slavery did not exist prior to the civil war [U.S.] free'-stone, s. any species of stone composed of sand or grit, so called because it is easily cut or wrought. free'-think-er, s. one who spurns the trammels of orthodox religious belief; properly a deist who discards revelation.