[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

free \free\ fr=e, a. compar. freer -~er; superl.
   freest -e^st. oe. fre, freo, as. fre'o, frimac;
   akin to d. vrij, os.  ohg. frimac, g. frei, icel.
   frimac, sw.  dan. fri, goth. freis, and also to skr. prija
   beloved, dear, fr. primac to love, goth. frij=on. cf.
   affray, belfry, friday, friend, frith inclosure.
   1. exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under
      restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's
      own impulses, desires, or inclinations; determining one's
      own course of action; not dependent; at liberty.
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            that which has the power, or not the power, to
            operate, is that alone which is or is not free.
                                                  --locke.
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   2. not under an arbitrary or despotic government; subject
      only to fixed laws regularly and fairly administered, and
      defended by them from encroachments upon natural or
      acquired rights; enjoying political liberty.
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   3. liberated, by arriving at a certain age, from the control
      of parents, guardian, or master.
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   4. not confined or imprisoned; released from arrest;
      liberated; at liberty to go.
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            set an unhappy prisoner free.         --prior.
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   5. not subjected to the laws of physical necessity; capable
      of voluntary activity; endowed with moral liberty; -- said
      of the will.
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            not free, what proof could they have given sincere
            of true allegiance, constant faith, or love.
                                                  --milton.
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   6. clear of offense or crime; guiltless; innocent.
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            my hands are guilty, but my heart is free. --dryden.
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   7. unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved;
      ingenuous; frank; familiar; communicative.
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            he was free only with a few.          --milward.
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   8. unrestrained; immoderate; lavish; licentious; -- used in a
      bad sense.
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            the critics have been very free in their censures.
                                                  --felton.
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            a man may live a free life as to wine or women.
                                                  --shelley.
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   9. not close or parsimonious; liberal; open-handed; lavish;
      as, free with his money.
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   10. exempt; clear; released; liberated; not encumbered or
       troubled with; as, free from pain; free from a burden; --
       followed by from, or, rarely, by of.
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             princes declaring themselves free from the
             obligations of their treaties.       --bp. burnet.
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   11. characteristic of one acting without restraint; charming;
       easy.
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   12. ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping;
       spirited; as, a free horse.
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   13. invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying
       certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special
       rights; -- followed by of.
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             he therefore makes all birds, of every sect,
             free of his farm.                    --dryden.
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   14. thrown open, or made accessible, to all; to be enjoyed
       without limitations; unrestricted; not obstructed,
       engrossed, or appropriated; open; -- said of a thing to
       be possessed or enjoyed; as, a free school.
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             why, sir, i pray, are not the streets as free
             for me as for you?                   --shak.
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   15. not gained by importunity or purchase; gratuitous;
       spontaneous; as, free admission; a free gift.
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   16. not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending
       individual rights against encroachment by any person or
       class; instituted by a free people; -- said of a
       government, institutions, etc.
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   17. o. eng. law certain or honorable; the opposite of
       base; as, free service; free socage. --burrill.
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   18. law privileged or individual; the opposite of common;
       as, a free fishery; a free warren. --burrill.
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   19. not united or combined with anything else; separated;
       dissevered; unattached; at liberty to escape; as, free
       carbonic acid gas; free cells.
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   free agency, the capacity or power of choosing or acting
      freely, or without necessity or constraint upon the will.
      

   free bench eng. law, a widow's right in the copyhold
      lands of her husband, corresponding to dower in freeholds.
      

   free board naut., a vessel's side between water line and
      gunwale.

   free bond chem., an unsaturated or unemployed unit, or
      bond, of affinity or valence, of an atom or radical.

   free-borough men o.eng. law. see friborg.

   free chapel eccles., a chapel not subject to the
      jurisdiction of the ordinary, having been founded by the
      king or by a subject specially authorized. eng.
      --bouvier.

   free charge elec., a charge of electricity in the free or
      statical condition; free electricity.

   free church.
       a a church whose sittings are for all and without
           charge.
       b an ecclesiastical body that left the church of
           scotland, in 1843, to be free from control by the
           government in spiritual matters.

   free city, or free town, a city or town independent in
      its government and franchises, as formerly those of the
      hanseatic league.

   free cost, freedom from charges or expenses. --south.

   free and easy, unconventional; unrestrained; regardless of
      formalities. colloq. "sal and her free and easy ways."
      --w. black.

   free goods, goods admitted into a country free of duty.

   free labor, the labor of freemen, as distinguished from
      that of slaves.

   free port. com.
       a a port where goods may be received and shipped free
           of custom duty.
       b a port where goods of all kinds are received from
           ships of all nations at equal rates of duty.

   free public house, in england, a tavern not belonging to a
      brewer, so that the landlord is free to brew his own beer
      or purchase where he chooses. --simmonds.

   free school.
       a a school to which pupils are admitted without
           discrimination and on an equal footing.
       b a school supported by general taxation, by
           endowmants, etc., where pupils pay nothing for
           tuition; a public school.

   free services o.eng. law, such feudal services as were
      not unbecoming the character of a soldier or a freemen to
      perform; as, to serve under his lord in war, to pay a sum
      of money, etc. --burrill.

   free ships, ships of neutral nations, which in time of war
      are free from capture even though carrying enemy's goods.
      

   free socage o.eng. law, a feudal tenure held by certain
      services which, though honorable, were not military.
      --abbott.

   free states, those of the united states before the civil
      war, in which slavery had ceased to exist, or had never
      existed.

   free stuff carp., timber free from knots; clear stuff.

   free thought, that which is thought independently of the
      authority of others.

   free trade, commerce unrestricted by duties or tariff
      regulations.

   free trader, one who believes in free trade.

   to make free with, to take liberties with; to help one's
      self to. colloq.

   to sail free naut., to sail with the yards not braced in
      as sharp as when sailing closehauled, or close to the
      wind.
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see also:
freer freest affray belfry friday friend 
frith base free agency free bench free board 
free bond free-borough men friborg free chapel free charge 
free church free city free town free cost free and easy 
free goods free labor free port free public house free school 
free services free ships free socage free states free stuff 
free thought free trade free trader to make free with to sail free 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

free \free\, adv.
   1. freely; willingly. obs.
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            i as free forgive you
            as i would be forgiven.               --shak.
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   2. without charge; as, children admitted free.
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[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

free \free\, v. t. imp.  p. p. freed; p. pr.  vb. n.
   freeing. oe. freen, freoien, as. fre'ogan. see free,
   a.
   1. to make free; to set at liberty; to rid of that which
      confines, limits, embarrasses, oppresses, etc.; to
      release; to disengage; to clear; -- followed by from, and
      sometimes by off; as, to free a captive or a slave; to be
      freed of these inconveniences. --clarendon.
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            our land is from the rage of tigers freed. --dryden.
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            arise, . . . free thy people from their yoke.
                                                  --milton.
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   2. to remove, as something that confines or bars; to relieve
      from the constraint of.
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            this master key
            frees every lock, and leads us to his person.
                                                  --dryden.
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   3. to frank. obs. --johnson.
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see also:
freed freeing free 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

free
     adj 1: able to act at will; not hampered; not under compulsion or
            restraint; "free enterprise"; "a free port"; "a free
            country"; "i have an hour free"; "free will"; "free of
            racism"; "feel free to stay as long as you wish"; "a
            free choice" ant: unfree
     2: unconstrained or not chemically bound in a molecule or not
        fixed and capable of relatively unrestricted motion; "free
        expansion"; "free oxygen"; "a free electron" ant: bound
     3: costing nothing; "complimentary tickets" syn: complimentary,
         costless, gratisp, gratuitous
     4: not occupied or in use; "a free locker"; "a free lane"
     5: not fixed in position; "the detached shutter fell on him";
        "he pulled his arm free and ran" syn: detached
     6: not held in servitude; "after the civil war he was a free
        man" ant: slavea
     7: not taken up by scheduled activities; "a free hour between
        classes"; "spare time on my hands" syn: spare
     8: not literal; "a loose interpretation of what she had been
        told"; "a free translation of the poem" syn: loose, liberal
     n : people who are free; "the home of the free and the brave"
         syn: free people
     adv : without restraint; "cows in india are running loose" syn: loose
     v 1: grant freedom to; free from confinement syn: liberate, release,
           unloose, unloosen, loose ant: confine
     2: relieve from; "rid the the house of pests" syn: rid, disembarrass
     3: remove or force out from a position; "the dentist dislodged
        the piece of food that had been stuck under my gums"; "he
        finally could free the legs of the earthquake victim who
        was buried in the rubble" syn: dislodge ant: lodge
     4: grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to;
        "she exempted me from the exam" syn: exempt, relieve
        ant: enforce
     5: make information available publication; "release the list
        with the names of the prisoners" syn: release
     6: free from obligations or duties syn: discharge
     7: free or remove obstruction from; "free a path across the
        cluttered floor" syn: disengage ant: obstruct
     8: let off the hook; "i absolve you from this responsibility"
        syn: absolve, justify ant: blame
     9: part with a possession or right; "i am relinquishing my
        bedroom to the long-term house guest"; "resign a claim to
        the throne" syn: release, relinquish, resign, give
        up
     10: make assets available; "release the holdings in the
         dictator's bank account" syn: unblock, unfreeze, release
         ant: freeze, freeze
     also: freest, freer
see also:
unfree bound complimentary costless gratisp gratuitous 
detached slavea spare loose liberal 
free people liberate release unloose unloosen 
confine rid disembarrass dislodge lodge 
exempt relieve enforce discharge disengage 
obstruct absolve justify blame relinquish 
resign give up unblock unfreeze freeze 
freest freer 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

470 moby thesaurus words for "free":
   abandoned, able, above, absolve, accessible, acquit, adrift,
   affranchise, afloat, afoot and lighthearted, allowed, amnesty,
   approachable, arbitrary, artless, as a gift, as our guest,
   at large, at leisure, at liberty, at loose ends, at will,
   autarchic, autarkic, autonomous, available, bald, bare, bighearted,
   bluff, blunt, bounteous, bountiful, break loose, break out, broad,
   brusque, candid, cast off, casual, charitable, cleanse,
   cleanse away, clear, clear of, cleared, communicative,
   complimentary, conversable, costless, cut loose, debauched,
   decontaminate, deliver, delivered, democratic, demonstrative,
   deobstruct, deserted, destigmatize, detach, detached, diffuse,
   direct, disburden, discharge, disclose, disclosed, discretional,
   discretionary, disembarrass, disembroil, disencumber, disengage,
   disengaged, disentangle, disenthrall, disinvolve, disjoin,
   dislodge, dismiss, dispense from, dispense with, disperse,
   dissipated, dissolute, doff, downright, ease, ease off, easy,
   easygoing, effusive, elective, eleemosynary, emancipate,
   emancipated, empty, enfranchise, enfranchised, escaped, except,
   exculpate, excuse, exempt, exempt from, exonerate, expansive,
   expenseless, explicit, expose, exposed, extra, extract, extricate,
   extricated, extroverted, fallow, fast, fled, floating, flown,
   footloose, footloose and fancy-free, for free, for love,
   for nothing, for the asking, forgive, forsaken, forthright, frank,
   frankhearted, free and easy, free as air, free for nothing,
   free from, free gratis, free of, free of charge, free of cost,
   free up, free will, free-born, free-speaking, free-spoken,
   free-tongued, freebie, freeborn, freed, freehanded, freehearted,
   freely, fugitive, furlough, gallant, gay, generous, genuine,
   get out, giftlike, give absolution, give dispensation from,
   give release, give respite, given, giving, gossipy, gracious,
   grant amnesty to, grant immunity, grant remission, gratis,
   gratuitous, gratuitously, greathearted, handsome, heart-to-heart,
   honest, hospitable, idle, in the clear, independent,
   individualistic, informal, ingenuous, intermit, jobless, justify,
   large, largehearted, lavish, leisure, leisured, let go, let loose,
   let off, let out, let up, liberal, liberate, liberated, licentious,
   loose, loosely, loosen, lumpen, magnanimous, manifest, manumit,
   munificent, naked, natural, newsy, nonmandatory, nonpros, off,
   off duty, off work, offered, on one, on parole, on the house,
   on the loose, open, open-handed, openhanded, openhearted, openly,
   optional, out, out of, out of employ, out of harness, out of work,
   outgoing, outright, outspoken, pardon, parole, patefy, permitted,
   plain, plain-spoken, princely, proffered, profligate, profuse,
   purge, purge away, quash the charge, quit, quit of, rakehell,
   rakehellish, rakehelly, rakish, ransom, recover, redeem, redeemed,
   relax, relaxed, release, released, relieve, remise, remit, remove,
   reprieve, rescue, rescued, retired, retrieve, reveal, rickety, rid,
   rid of, round, runaway, salvage, save, save the necessity, scatter,
   scot-free, self-acting, self-active, self-determined,
   self-determining, self-directing, self-governed, self-governing,
   self-revealing, self-revelatory, semiretired, separate,
   set at large, set at liberty, set free, shaky, shed of, shrive,
   shut of, sincere, slack, slack off, slacken, sociable, sovereign,
   spare, spontaneous, spring, sprung, stintless, straight,
   straight-out, straightforward, suspend, take off, talkative,
   tear loose, tenantless, to his heirs, transparent, unanchored,
   unasked, unattached, unbar, unbesought, unbidden, unbind, unblock,
   unbolt, unbought, unbound, unbridled, unbuckle, unburden, unbutton,
   uncage, uncalled-for, uncase, unceremonious, unchain, unchained,
   unchecked, unclasp, unclench, unclog, unclogged, unclosed,
   unclutch, unclutter, uncoerced, uncommitted, uncompelled,
   unconditional, unconditioned, unconfined, unconstrained,
   uncontrolled, uncork, uncover, uncovered, uncurtain, undo, undone,
   undrape, unemployable, unemployed, unencumbered, unengaged,
   unenslaved, unequivocal, unfasten, unfastened, unfetter,
   unfettered, unfilled, unfixed, unfold, unforced, unfoul, unglue,
   ungrudging, unguarded, unhampered, unhidden, unhindered, unimpeded,
   uninfluenced, uninhabited, uninhibited, uninvited, uninvolved,
   unknot, unlace, unlatch, unleash, unlock, unloose, unloosen,
   unmanned, unobstructed, unoccupied, unpaid-for, unpeopled, unplug,
   unpopulated, unpressured, unprompted, unravel, unrepressed,
   unrequested, unrequired, unreserved, unreservedly, unrestrained,
   unrestricted, unreticent, unroll, unscramble, unseal, unsecretive,
   unselfish, unshackle, unshackled, unsheathe, unshrinking, unshut,
   unsilent, unsnarl, unsolicited, unsought, unsparing, unstaffed,
   unstick, unstinted, unstinting, unstop, unstopped, unstrap,
   unstuck, unsuppressed, untaken, untangle, untaxed, untenanted,
   untended, untie, untied, unused, unveil, unwrap, vacant, vindicate,
   voluntary, volunteer, weigh anchor, well out of, whitewash,
   wide-open, wild, willful, with abandon, withdraw the charge,
   without, without charge, without restraint, without stint

[6] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

free
     
        see free software, free variable.
     
     
see also:
free software free variable 

[7] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

free ships. by this is understood neutral vessels. free ships are sometimes 
considered as making free goods. 

[8] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

free. not bound to servitude; at liberty to act as one pleases. this word is 
put in opposition to slave. 
     2. representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the 
several states, which may be included within this union, according to their 
respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number 
of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and 
excluding indians not taxed, three-fifths of all other persons. const. u. s. 
art. 1, s. 2. 3. it is also put in contradistinction to being bound as an 
apprentice; as, an apprentice becomes free on attaining the age of twenty-
one years. 
     4. the declaration of independence asserts that all men are born free, 
and in at sense, the term includes all mankind. 

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