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IMG:content-0120.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Voluntarine , spontaneity. II. Technically: B. As adj.: Given freely; with free-will. "Accept, I beseech thee, the free- will offerings of my free, v. t. [FREE, a.] 1. To set free or at liberty; to release from slavery, captivity or confinement; to manumit. "Canst thou no other master understand, Than him that freed thee by the pretor's wand?" Dryden: Perseus, sat. v. 2. To deliver from any despotic government or authority; to liberate; to deliver. "He recovered the temple, freed the city, and upheld the laws which were going down."-2 Maccabees , ii. 22. 3. To disentangle or clear from any incumbrance or obstruction; to disengage; to remove any incumbrance or obstacle from; as, to free the feet from fetters. 4. To clear or set free from anything ill; to rid. "William, freed from an enemy which had given himself and his father so many alarms, renewed his ill-treatment of his brothers."-Burke: Abridg . Eng. Hist . , bk. iii., ch. iii. 5. To exempt as from any oppre ive condition or duty. *6. To remove; to take or do away; to clear. "We may again Free from our feasts and banquets bloody knives." Shakesp.: Macbeth , iii. 6. *7. To acquit, to absolve; to clear from any stain or charge. "I free you from it."- Shakesp .: Henry VIII ., ii. 4. *8. To frank; to cause to pa free of charge. "Please to free this letter to Mi Lucy Porter in Lich field."-Johnson: To Mrs. Thrale (June, 1775). *9. To open so as to allow free pa age through. "This master key Frees every lock and leads us to his person." Dryden: Don Sebastian, iv. 1. IMG:content-0121.png:[blocks in formation] are delivered or liberated from that which others have imposed upon us; the former from evils in general, the latter from the evil of confinement. When applied in a sense applied to sin; set free is employed for obligation and responsibility; deliver is employed for external circumstances." (Crabb: Eng. Synon.) free-běnçh, s . [Eng. free , and bench .) Eng. Law: The right which a widow has in her husband's copyhold lands, corresponding to dower in the case of freeholds. free-boôt, *free-boote, s. [FREEBOOTER.] Robbery.