freeboott (frebot)

[ Julius Tutor, who robbed his fellow the eves, for he pillaged the Cilicians, that lived themselves upon free boote. Sir R. Stap let on , tr. of Juvenal's Satires, viii. 124, note. freebooter (frē'böter), n. [Not of purely E. formation, but made, it seems, like the similarly accom. forms, Sw. fri by tare , Dan. fribyt ter, G. freibeuter , in imitation of MD. vrijbueter , free-born (frē'born), a. [ Lithe and lysten, gentylmen, That be of frebore blode. Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode (Child's Ballads, V. 44). Tell me, art thou a Roman? He said, Yea. And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born. Acts xxii. 27, 28. Bor. The soldier's grown too saucy; You must tie him straiter up. Archas. I do my best, sir; But men of free - born minds sometimes will fly out. Fletcher, Loyal Subject, ii. 1. Let them remember themselves to be, not only freeborn English men, but freeborn Christians: let them be jealous of their spiritual liberty, as well as their temporal. Bp . Atterbury , Sermons, II. iv. free-borough (frē'burō), a. An epithet formerly applied in England, in the phrase free - borough men , to such men as had not engaged, like the frank-pledge men, to become sureties for the good behavior of themselves and others. free-chase (frēʻchās), n. Same as frank - chase. freecostt (frē'kôst), n. Freedom from charges or expenses. South. free-denizent (frē ́den"i-zn), v. t. To make a free denizen or citizen of. No worldly respects can free - denizen a Christian here, and of "peregrin us" make him "civis." Bp . Hall , Remains, p. 202. freedman (frēd'man), n.; pl. freedmen (-men). [ Appius Claudius brought in a custom of admitting to the senate the sons of freedmen . Swift , Nobles and Commons, iii. The slave is atoned for with thirty solidi, the freed man with eighty, the freeman with two hundred, and the adaling with six hundred. Stubbs , Const. Hist., § 23. The president (in the proclamation of freedom, Jan. 1, 1863] enjoined upon the freedmen to abstain from all violence unle in nece ary self-defence, and recommended to them in all cases, when allowed to do so, to labor faith fully for reasonable wages; but gave notice also that suit able persons would be received into the armed service of the United States. Amer. Cyc ., XV. 101, Freedmen's Bureau. See bureau .