Free

a. [A. S. freogan.] To set free; to remove, as any incumbrance or obstruction; to disengage from; to rid; to strip; to clear; to liberate; to set at liberty; to rescue or release from slavery, captivity, or confinement. "Our land is from the rage of tigers freed." - Dryden. -To loose; to disentangle; to disengage; to exempt; to release from obligation or duty. "For he that is dead, is freed from sin." - Rom . vi. 7. Free'-a'gency, n. The condition or state of acting freely; without nece ity or constraint of the will. Free-bench, n. ( Eng . Law.) A widow's dower in a copyhold.