Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F - Page 62

Freed (imp. & p. p.) of Free

Freeing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Free

Free (a.) 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.

Free (a.) To remove, as something that confines or bars; to relieve from the constraint of.

Free (a.) To frank.

Freebooter (n.) One who plunders or pillages without the authority of national warfare; a member of a predatory band; a pillager; a buccaneer; a sea robber.

Freebootery (n.) The act, practice, or gains of a freebooter; freebooting.

Freebooting (n.) Robbery; plunder; a pillaging.

Freebooting (a.) Acting the freebooter; practicing freebootery; robbing.

Freebooty (n.) Freebootery.

Freeborn (a.) Born free; not born in vassalage; inheriting freedom.

Free-denizen (v. t.) To make free.

Freedmen (pl. ) of Freedman

Freedman (n.) A man who has been a slave, and has been set free.

Freedom (n.) The state of being free; exemption from the power and control of another; liberty; independence.

Freedom (n.) Privileges; franchises; immunities.

Freedom (n.) Exemption from necessity, in choise and action; as, the freedom of the will.

Freedom (n.) Ease; facility; as, he speaks or acts with freedom.

Freedom (n.) Frankness; openness; unreservedness.

Freedom (n.) Improper familiarity; violation of the rules of decorum; license.

Freedom (n.) Generosity; liberality.

Freedstool (n.) See Fridstol.

Free-hand (a.) Done by the hand, without support, or the guidance of instruments; as, free-hand drawing. See under Drawing.

Free-handed (a.) Open-handed; liberal.

Free-hearted (a.) Open; frank; unreserved; liberal; generous; as, free-hearted mirth.

Freehold (n.) An estate in real property, of inheritance (in fee simple or fee tail) or for life; or the tenure by which such estate is held.

Freeholder (n.) The possessor of a freehold.

Free-liver (n.) One who gratifies his appetites without stint; one given to indulgence in eating and drinking.

Free-living (n.) Unrestrained indulgence of the appetites.

Free-love (n.) The doctrine or practice of consorting with the opposite sex, at pleasure, without marriage.

Free-lover (n.) One who believes in or practices free-love.

Freelte (n.) Frailty.

Freely (adv.) In a free manner; without restraint or compulsion; abundantly; gratuitously.

Freemen (pl. ) of Freeman

Freeman (n.) One who enjoys liberty, or who is not subject to the will of another; one not a slave or vassal.

Freeman (n.) A member of a corporation, company, or city, possessing certain privileges; a member of a borough, town, or State, who has the right to vote at elections. See Liveryman.

Free-martin (n.) An imperfect female calf, twinborn with a male.

Freemason (n.) One of an ancient and secret association or fraternity, said to have been at first composed of masons or builders in stone, but now consisting of persons who are united for social enjoyment and mutual assistance.

Freemasonic (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the institutions or the practices of freemasons; as, a freemasonic signal.

Freemasonry (n.) The institutions or the practices of freemasons.

Free-milling (a.) Yielding free gold or silver; -- said of certain ores which can be reduced by crushing and amalgamation, without roasting or other chemical treatment.

Free-minded (a.) Not perplexed; having a mind free from care.

Freeness (n.) The state or quality of being free; freedom; liberty; openness; liberality; gratuitousness.

Freer (n.) One who frees, or sets free.

Free-soil (a.) Pertaining to, or advocating, the non-extension of slavery; -- esp. applied to a party which was active during the period 1846-1856.

Free-spoken (a.) Accustomed to speak without reserve.

Freestone (n.) A stone composed of sand or grit; -- so called because it is easily cut or wrought.

Freestone (a.) Having the flesh readily separating from the stone, as in certain kinds of peaches.

Free-swimming (a.) Swimming in the open sea; -- said of certain marine animals.

Freethinker (n.) One who speculates or forms opinions independently of the authority of others; esp., in the sphere or religion, one who forms opinions independently of the authority of revelation or of the church; an unbeliever; -- a term assumed by deists and skeptics in the eighteenth century.

Freethinking (n.) Undue boldness of speculation; unbelief.

Freethinking (a.) Exhibiting undue boldness of speculation; skeptical.

Free-tongued (a.) Speaking without reserve.

Free will () A will free from improper coercion or restraint.

Free will () The power asserted of moral beings of willing or choosing without the restraints of physical or absolute necessity.

Freewill (a.) Of or pertaining to free will; voluntary; spontaneous; as, a freewill offering.

Freezable (a.) Capable of being frozen.

Freeze (n.) A frieze.

Froze (imp.) of Freeze

Frozen (p. p.) of Freeze

Freezing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Freeze

Freeze (v. i.) To become congealed by cold; to be changed from a liquid to a solid state by the abstraction of heat; to be hardened into ice or a like solid body.

Freeze (v. i.) To become chilled with cold, or as with cold; to suffer loss of animation or life by lack of heat; as, the blood freezes in the veins.

Freeze (v. t.) To congeal; to harden into ice; to convert from a fluid to a solid form by cold, or abstraction of heat.

Freeze (v. t.) To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.

Freeze (n.) The act of congealing, or the state of being congealed.

Freezer (n.) One who, or that which, cools or freezes, as a refrigerator, or the tub and can used in the process of freezing ice cream.

Freezing (a.) Tending to freeze; for freezing; hence, cold or distant in manner.

Freieslebenite (n.) A sulphide of antimony, lead, and silver, occuring in monoclinic crystals.

Freight (n.) That with which anything in fraught or laden for transportation; lading; cargo, especially of a ship, or a car on a railroad, etc.; as, a freight of cotton; a full freight.

Freight (n.) The sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship for the use of what is thus hired.

Freight (n.) The price paid a common carrier for the carriage of goods.

Freight (n.) Freight transportation, or freight line.

Freight (a.) Employed in the transportation of freight; having to do with freight; as, a freight car.

Freighted (imp. & p. p.) of Freight

Freighting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Freight

Freight (v. t.) To load with goods, as a ship, or vehicle of any kind, for transporting them from one place to another; to furnish with freight; as, to freight a ship; to freight a car.

Freightage (n.) Charge for transportation; expense of carriage.

Freightage (n.) The transportation of freight.

Freightage (n.) Freight; cargo; lading. Milton.

Freighter (n.) One who loads a ship, or one who charters and loads a ship.

Freighter (n.) One employed in receiving and forwarding freight.

Freighter (n.) One for whom freight is transported.

Freighter (n.) A vessel used mainly to carry freight.

Freightless (a.) Destitute of freight.

Frelte (n.) Frailty.

Fremd (a.) Alt. of Fremed

Fremed (a.) Strange; foreign.

Fren (a.) A stranger.

French (a.) Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants.

French (n.) The language spoken in France.

French (n.) Collectively, the people of France.

Frenchified (imp. & p. p.) of Frenchify

Frenchifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Frenchify

Frenchify (v. t.) To make French; to infect or imbue with the manners or tastes of the French; to Gallicize.

Frenchism (n.) A French mode or characteristic; an idiom peculiar to the French language.

Frenchmen (pl. ) of Frenchman

Frenchman (n.) A native or one of the people of France.

Frenetir (a.) Distracted; mad; frantic; phrenetic.

Frenetical (a.) Frenetic; frantic; frenzied.

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