fredricite (fredrisit)

[ Icel. frō, fri = Sw. Dan. fri ) = OHG. fri, MHG. vri, G. frei = Goth. freis (acc. m. frijana; stem frija- ), free; orig. meaning appar. 'loved, spared, favored,' hence 'left at liberty'; in active sense, 'loving, sparing, generous'; ef. Skt. priya, dear, Stand fast, therefore, in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free. Gal. v. 1. Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thought more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate; Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute. Milton , P. L., ii. 560. So far as a man has a power to think or not to think, to move or not to move, according to the preference or direction of his own mind, so far is a man free . Locke, Human Understanding, II. xxi. 8. The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary self? free Fond Man! art thou only free to ruine and destroy thy Stilling fleet , Sermons, I. ii. To a will free in the sense of unmotived we can attach no meaning whatever. T. H. Green, Prolegomena to Ethics, § 97. 2. Unrestrained in movement; not constrained, as by fastenings, to remain in a certain position or to move in a certain direction: as, to get one's arm free ; the free motion of a particle in space. See def. 17.-3. Specifically, not subject to arbitrary, despotic, or autocratic governmental control, but existing under a government and laws based on the consent, expre ed or implied, of the majority of the governed; having civil liberty: as, a free state or people; a free church. We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakspere spake, the faith and morals hold Which Milton held. Words worth, Sonnets, xvi. For a you sand years after Christ the Church of Ireland was free. Bp. Chr. Words worth , Church of Ireland, p. 114. By definition, a nation calling itself free should have no jealousy of the executive, for freedom means that the nation, the political part of the nation, wields the executive. Bagehot, Eng. Const., p. 346. A free pre might have been a great gain under the despotism of the Roman Empire; it could not have made political life under the A then i an democracy freer or more E. A. Freeman , Amer. Lects., p. 250. open than it was. 4. Based on the principles of civil liberty; not arbitrary, despotic, or autocratic: as, a free constitution or government. There can be no free government without a democrat ical branch in the constitution. J. Adams . IMG:content-1817.png:[blocks in formation] He sees with pride her richer thought, Her fancy's freer ranges. Whittier , Among the Hills. 6. Loose; at liberty; wild: often used in old English poetry, mainly for alliteration, without special significance. The culorum of this clause curatores ys to mene, That ben carpenters vnder Criste holy kirke to make For lewede folke, godes foules and hus free bestes. Piers Plowman (C), xii. 249. He's parted her and her sweet life, For pu'in the rose and the fair lilie, For pu'in them sae fair and free. Duke of Perth's Three Daughters (Child's Ballads, And weel he kent that lad ye fair Amang her maidens free . [II. 282). The Gay Go - Hawk (Child's Ballads, III. 279). 7. Unrestrained by decency; bold; indecent. Tho' free as Thais, still affect a Fright. Congreve, tr. of Ovid's Art of Love. Earl Limours Drank till he jested with all ease, and told Free tales. Tennyson, Geraint. Many of these poems are full of a solemn and deep devotion; others are strangely coarse and free. Ticknor, Span. Lit., II. 178. 8. Clear of obstruction or impediment; not hindered or restricted; unobstructed: as, free motion; the water has a free pa age or channel; a free field of action. Pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified. 2 Thes. iii. 1. Free vent of words love's fire doth a uage. Shak., Venus and Adonis, 1. 334. They bore her. free-faced to the free airs of heaven, And laid her in the vault of her own kin. Tennyson, Lover's Tale, iv. In the treatment of typhus and typhoid fevers, the freest ventilation, even to the extent of placing the patient in the open air, reduces the mortality more than half, and greatly shortens the time of recovery. Huxley and Youmans , Physiol., § 393. 9. Clear or exempt (from something); having immunity: with from, or sometimes of: as, free from disease, or from faults; a grove free from underbrush. These, my lord, Are such allow'd infirmities, that honesty Is never free of. Shak ., W. T., i. 2. The Countries that are freest from Exce of drinking are Spain and Italy. Howell, Letters, ii. 54. ture. Here, free yourselves from envy, care, and strife, You view the various turns of human life. Dryden, Prol. to the Univ. of Oxford, 1674, 1. 7. The side corridors are generally free from figure-sculpJ. Fergu on, Hist. Indian Arch., p. 358. 10. Open for use or enjoyment; generally acce ible or available; not appropriated; unre IMG:content-1818.png:[blocks in formation] It is a very pretty place, the house commodious, the gardens handsome, and our entertainment very free . Evelyn , Diary, June 2, 1676. 14. Invested with the rights or immunities (of); having a right to the freedom, enjoyment, or use (of): with of: as, a man free of the city of London. I was free of haunts umbrageous. Keats . 15. Ready; eager; not dull; acting without compulsion. Raunging the forest wide on courser free. Spenser, F. Q., I. ix. 12. Courageously, and with a free desire, Attending but the signal to begin. Shak., Rich. II., 1. 3. A spur to a free horse will make him run himself blind, Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 336. 16. Not holding strictly to rule or form or to an original: as, a free drawing; a free translation; a free fugue. There is a winning freshne in the originals... that escapes in translation, however free or however strict. Ticknor , Span. Lit., I. 139. 17. Not attached or fixed; moving freely, or able to do so; detached from some support: as, the free larval form of an animal afterward becoming fixed. Within the arch is a framework or centering of wood standing free. J. Fergu on, Hist. Indian Arch., p. 119. Specifically-(a) In chem., not chemically combined with any other body; at liberty to escape: as, free carbonic acid gas. The anaerobia - those [plants]... which thrive best in the absence of free oxygen, and to which, in certain cases, the acce of free oxygen is fatal. Encyc. Brit ., XIX. 51. (b) In bot . , not adnate to other organs: as, a free ovary (that is, one not united with the calyx); a free placenta (one detached from the walls of the ovary). It is sometimes used in the sense of distinct, or not adnate to adjacent organs of the same kind. (c) In entom., unrestrained in articulate movement; movable at the point of contact. The head is formed nearly as in Psephanus, but it is le free , owing to the prominent angles of the thorax. Water house. IMG:content-1819.png:[blocks in formation] free in the protoplasm of the mother-cell. It is recognized as one of four types of cytogenesis or cell-formation, the others being rejuvenescence, conjugation, and division. Free- cell formation may be typically observed in the formation of the ascospores of the Ascomycetes. Encyc. Brit., XII. 13. Free chant, chapel, charge, etc. See the nouns.Free charge of electricity, electricity on an insulated conductor not in the immediate vicinity of a corresponding or complementary charge of the opposite sign x.Free Church, more fully Free Church of Scotland, a large and important body of Presbyterians, organized at Edinburgh, Scotland, at the disruption in 1843, when over 200 ministers, members of the General A embly of the Established Church of Scotland, after the reading of a protest, formally withdrew with a large following of adherents to another meeting-place, and constituted the first general a embly of a church that should be free from state connection, the interference of the civil courts in spiritual matters, and the evils of patronage, while still maintaining the Confe ion of Faith and the standards of the Church of Scotland. The Act of Separation and Deed of Demi ion by which the new organization cut loose from the Established Church was signed by 474 ministers and profe ors, who renounced all claim to the benefices they held. The Free Church ranks as second to the Established Church in the number of its congregations and membership. Abbreviated F. C. See disruption. In one sense the Free Church dates its existence from the Disruption of 1843, in another it claims to be the rightful representative of the National Church of Scotland as it was reformed in 1560. Encyc . Brit ., IX. 742. Free church, a church in which the pews or sittings are not rented, but are open to all. - Free city. See city . Free coinage, a phrase denoting that the mint is open to any one who may bring bullion to be coined. The United States mint is now (1896) closed to the free coinage of silver. - Free companion. Same as free -lance, 1. My gallant troop of Free Companions . Scott , Ivanhoe, xxx. Free Congregations. See congregation.- Free coup. See coup1. - Free Democratic party, in U. S. politics, a name a umed by the Free-soilers in 1852.- Free drainage, the capability, in consequence of position, of being drained by an adit-level. A mine which can be thus drained is said, although rarely, to have free drainage. In War wicks hire, England, to have free drainage is called being "level-free." - Free electricity. See electricity and induction. - Free fantasia. See fantasia. - Free fisher, or free fisherman, in England, one who holds the right to take fish in certain waters. Free fishery. See fishery.- Free gills. See gilll. Free labor, labor performed by free persons, in contradistinction to that of slaves. Free love, the doctrine, maintained by some persons and a ociations, of the rightfulne of free choice in sexual relations, without the restraint of legal marriage or of any continuing obligation independent of individual will. This doctrine, under different names, but generally as part of a religious creed, has been more or le advocated and practised in many periods and countries; but the above name was probably first applied to it in the United States. Free Methodist. See Methodist. Free on board. See F. O. B.- Free ovary. See def. 17 (b), and ovary.- Free Parliament. See convention, 3 (c). Free part, in music, a part added to a canon or fugue to complete the harmony; in a canon, any part which is not an antecedent or a consequent. Free path of the molecules of a gas. See path. - Free Quaker. See quaker.- Free reed. See reed1. - Free Religious A ociation, a society founded at Boston in 1867 for the purpose of religious inquiry. Its members are drawn from various religious bodies, and great toleration prevails in its meetings. Free services, in the feudal system, such services as were not unbecoming the character of a soldier or freeman to perform, as to serve under his lord in the wars, to contribute money, and the like. - Free ship. See ship. -Free States, in the United States, before the civil war of 1861-5, those States in which the institution of slavery did not exist: in contradistinction to slave States.Free stuff, clear timber; timber free from knots: a builders' term. - Free thought, thought untrammeled by regard for authority; rationalism. See free -thinker. The word free thought is now commonly used, at least in foreign literature, to expre the result of the revolt of the mind against the pre ure of external authority in any department of life or speculation. Farrar . Free town. See free city, under city. - Free trade, unrestricted trade; especially, trade or commerce between different countries free from restrictions or customs-duties; in a narrower and more common sense, international trade free from protective or discriminative duties; trade subject only to such tariffs and regulations as are nece ary for revenue and police. Complete freedom of trade between the several States is prescribed by the Constitution of the United States. See protection. - Free trade and sailors' rights, a popular cry throughout the United States in the years immediately preceding and during the war of 1812. It was a protest against first, the restrictions which were laid upon neutral commerce, and the confiscations which followed any violation of these restrictions, by the warring nations, France and Great Britain; and, secondly, the right of search for British seamen on American ve els, which Great Britain claimed as her prerogative, and repeatedly carried into execution. - Free veins, in entom., such veins as do not anastomose; those veins which are unconnected with other veins except at their origin. Tenure by free alms. See alms. - To have a free wind. See to sail free, under free, adv. - To make free with. ( a ) To meddle with. (0) To use liberties with; use, or make use of, with undue freedom. II. n. A person of free or noble birth; often, in early poetry, a lady. The night was so nighe, that noyet hym sore, Merkit the mountayns & mores aboute. Iche freke to his fre held & so the fight end is. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 7810. She's followed her sons down to the strand, That chaste and noble fre . Rosmer Hafmand (Child's Ballads, I. 253). free free (frē), adv. [ Sir Thomas Lovell, I as free forgive you As I would be forgiven. Shak ., Hen. VIII., ii. 1. To sail free, or to go free ( naut .), to sail somewhat further from the wind than when close-hauled.-- To work free, to be easily cut with a tool, as a piece of wood, 2368 a freebooter, pirate ("Præmiator, prædo cui quicquid ab hoste capitur, in præmium cedit; Pirata"-Kilian), D. vrijbuiter (> mod. D. vrij buiten, plunder, rob); freógan, free ( friend, orig. pr. of the verb freon, fregan, love.] I. trans. 1. To make release from restraint or constraint; specifically, to release from bondage or from imprisonment: as, to free prisoners or slaves. Spirit, fine spirit! I'll free thee Within two days for this. Shak . , Tempest, i. 2. Till the freed Indians in their native groves Reap their own fruits. Pope , Windsor Forest, 1. 409. 2. To rid, as from something obstructive or restrictive; clear; disentangle; disengage: with from or of: as, to free a man from debt, or the feet from fetters; to free the lungs of morbid matter; to free a ship from water by pumping it out. He that is dead is freed from sin. Rom. vi. 7. The devil speed him! no man's pie is freed From his ambitious finger. Shak., Hen. VIII., i. 31. To remove. That... we may again freedom I else must change Their nature, and revoke the high decree, Unchangeable, eternal, which ordain'd Their freedom; they themselves ordain'd their fall. Milton, P. L., iii. 128. In this then consists freedom : viz., in our being able to act or not to act, according as we shall choose or will. Locke, Human Understanding, II. xxi. 27. The doctrine of Freedom was first elaborated into a Richard of England came [to Cyprus] not as a freebooter , but as a deliverer from utter misery. Stubbs , Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 161. =Syn. Marauder , etc. See robber . freebootery (fre (frēʼbö tėr-i), n. [= Sw. Dan. fri bytteri G. freibeuterei; as freebooter + -y: see -ery.] The act, practice, or gains of a freeboot [Rare.] freebooting freebooting (fre'bö"ting), (fre'bö"ting), n. [Verbal n. of free- boot, v.] Robbery; plunder; pillage. Lastly for a the if it [a mantle) is so handsome, as it may see me it was first invented for him; for under it he can cleanly convay any fitt pillage that cometh handsomely in his way, and when he goeth abrode in the night on free- booting , it is his best and surest frend. Free from our feasts and banquets bloody knives. Shak., Macbeth, iii. 6. IMG:content-1820.png:[blocks in formation] To free one's conscience, to do that which conscience requires; relieve the conscience by an act of duty. To free one's mind, to speak according to one's feelings; utter one's thoughts without restraint or reserve; talk plainly: as, I have freed my mind to him, and now he may do as he pleases. [Colloq.] II. in trans . To make free; take liberties: followed by with . [Colloq.] free-and-easy (frē'and-ē'zi), n. [ and easy , phrase under free , a.] A sort of club held in public houses, in which the members meet to drink, smoke, sing, etc.