Not subjected to physical or moral restriction or control, either absolutely or in one or more particulars; able to act without external controlling interference; being at liberty: said of persons and of their acts or functions: as, free thought; a free conscience; free will or choice; the prisoner was set free; he was free to go or to stay.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.Specifically, not subject to arbitrary, despotic, or autocratic governmental control, but existing under a government and laws based on the consent, expressed or implied, of the majority of the governed; having civil liberty: as, a free state or people; a free church.Based on the principles of civil liberty; not arbitrary, despotic, or autocratic: as, a free constitution or government.Characterized by liberty of action or expression; unreserved, open, frank, ingenuous, etc.: often with the implication of undue liberty.Loose; at liberty; wild: often used in old English poetry, mainly for alliteration, without special significance.Unrestrained by decency; bold; indecent.Clear of obstruction or impediment; not hindered or restricted; unobstructed: as, free motion; the water has a free passage or channel; a free field of action.Clear or exempt (from something); having immunity: with from, or sometimes of: as, free from disease, or from faults; a grove free from underbrush.Open for use or enjoyment; generally accessible or available; not appropriated; unrestricted: as, air and water are free; the ocean is a free highway for all nations; a free library.Specifically, not encumbered with taxes or customs-duties.Gratuitous; without compensation or reward; clear of equivalent or reciprocation: as, free schools or education; a free table; a free gift or service.Liberal; not parsimonious or sparing; giving or using, or disposed to give or use, generously or abundantly: as, he is very free with his money; a free patron of art.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.Ready; eager; not dull; acting without compulsion.Not holding strictly to rule or form or to an original: as, a free drawing; a free translation; a free fugue.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.SpecificallyIn chem., not chemically combined with any other body; at liberty to escape: as, free carbonic-acid gas.In botany, 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.In entomology, unrestrained in articulate movement; movable at the point of contact.Said of those parts of a limb which are beyond the common integument of the body.Noble.To use liberties with; use, or make use of, with undue freedom.n. A person of free or noble birth; often, in early poetry, a lady.In a free manner, in any sense of the adjective; freely; with freedom or liberty.To make free; release from restraint or constraint; specifically, to release from bondage or from imprisonment: as, to free prisoners or slaves.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.To remove.To clear from blame or stain; absolve from some charge; gain pardon for.To indorse and send free by mail; frank.To make free; take liberties: followed by with.In horticulture, abundantly blooming or fruiting; also, of profuse and rapid growth.
