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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
free
adv
  1. without restraint; "cows in India are running loose"
    Synonym(s): loose, 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"
    Antonym(s): 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"
    Antonym(s): bound
  3. costing nothing; "complimentary tickets"; "free admission"
    Synonym(s): complimentary, costless, free, gratis(p), 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"
    Synonym(s): detached, free
  6. not held in servitude; "after the Civil War he was a free man"
    Antonym(s): unfree
  7. not taken up by scheduled activities; "a free hour between classes"; "spare time on my hands"
    Synonym(s): spare, free
  8. completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning"
    Synonym(s): barren, destitute, devoid, free, innocent
  9. not literal; "a loose interpretation of what she had been told"; "a free translation of the poem"
    Synonym(s): free, loose, liberal
n
  1. people who are free; "the home of the free and the brave"
    Synonym(s): free, free people
v
  1. grant freedom to; free from confinement [syn: free, liberate, release, unloose, unloosen, loose]
    Antonym(s): confine, detain
  2. relieve from; "Rid the house of pests"
    Synonym(s): rid, free, 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"
    Synonym(s): dislodge, free
    Antonym(s): deposit, lodge, stick, wedge
  4. grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to; "She exempted me from the exam"
    Synonym(s): exempt, relieve, free
    Antonym(s): apply, enforce, implement
  5. make (information) available for publication; "release the list with the names of the prisoners"
    Synonym(s): free, release
  6. free from obligations or duties
    Synonym(s): free, discharge
  7. free or remove obstruction from; "free a path across the cluttered floor"
    Synonym(s): free, disengage
    Antonym(s): block, close up, impede, jam, obstruct, obturate, occlude
  8. let off the hook; "I absolve you from this responsibility"
    Synonym(s): absolve, justify, free
    Antonym(s): blame, fault
  9. part with a possession or right; "I am relinquishing my bedroom to the long-term house guest"; "resign a claim to the throne"
    Synonym(s): release, relinquish, resign, free, give up
  10. release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition
    Synonym(s): release, free, liberate
  11. make (assets) available; "release the holdings in the dictator's bank account"
    Synonym(s): unblock, unfreeze, free, release
    Antonym(s): block, freeze, immobilise, immobilize
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Free \Free\ (fr[emac]), a. [Compar. {Freer} (-[etil]r); superl.
      {Freest} (-[ecr]st).] [OE. fre, freo, AS. fre[a2], fr[c6];
      akin to D. vrij, OS. & OHG. fr[c6], G. frei, Icel. fr[c6],
      Sw. & Dan. fri, Goth. freis, and also to Skr. prija beloved,
      dear, fr. pr[c6] to love, Goth. frij[omac]n. 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.
  
                     That which has the power, or not the power, to
                     operate, is that alone which is or is not free.
                                                                              --Locke.
  
      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.
  
      3. Liberated, by arriving at a certain age, from the control
            of parents, guardian, or master.
  
      4. Not confined or imprisoned; released from arrest;
            liberated; at liberty to go.
  
                     Set an unhappy prisoner free.            --Prior.
  
      5. Not subjected to the laws of physical necessity; capable
            of voluntary activity; endowed with moral liberty; -- said
            of the will.
  
                     Not free, what proof could they have given sincere
                     Of true allegiance, constant faith, or love.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
      6. Clear of offense or crime; guiltless; innocent.
  
                     My hands are guilty, but my heart is free. --Dryden.
  
      7. Unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved;
            ingenuous; frank; familiar; communicative.
  
                     He was free only with a few.               --Milward.
  
      8. Unrestrained; immoderate; lavish; licentious; -- used in a
            bad sense.
  
                     The critics have been very free in their censures.
                                                                              --Felton.
  
                     A man may live a free life as to wine or women.
                                                                              --Shelley.
  
      9. Not close or parsimonious; liberal; open-handed; lavish;
            as, free with his money.
  
      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.
  
                     Princes declaring themselves free from the
                     obligations of their treaties.         --Bp. Burnet.
  
      11. Characteristic of one acting without restraint; charming;
            easy.
  
      12. Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping;
            spirited; as, a free horse.
  
      13. Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying
            certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special
            rights; -- followed by of.
  
                     He therefore makes all birds, of every sect, Free
                     of his farm.                                    --Dryden.
  
      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.
  
                     Why, sir, I pray, are not the streets as free For
                     me as for you?                                 --Shak.
  
      15. Not gained by importunity or purchase; gratuitous;
            spontaneous; as, free admission; a free gift.
  
      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.
  
      17. (O. Eng. Law) Certain or honorable; the opposite of base;
            as, free service; free socage. --Burrill.
  
      18. (Law) Privileged or individual; the opposite of common;
            as, a free fishery; a free warren. --Burrill.
  
      19. Not united or combined with anything else; separated;
            dissevered; unattached; at liberty to escape; as, free
            carbonic acid gas; free cells.
  
      {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.] [bd]Sal and her free and easy
            ways.[b8] --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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Free \Free\, adv.
      1. Freely; willingly. [Obs.]
  
                     I as free forgive you As I would be forgiven.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      2. Without charge; as, children admitted free.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Free \Free\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Freed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Freeing}.] [OE. freen, freoien, AS. fre[a2]gan. 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.
  
                     Our land is from the rage of tigers freed. --Dryden.
  
                     Arise, . . . free thy people from their yoke.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
      2. To remove, as something that confines or bars; to relieve
            from the constraint of.
  
                     This master key Frees every lock, and leads us to
                     his person.                                       --Dryden.
  
      3. To frank. [Obs.] --Johnson.

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   free
  
      See {free software}, {free variable}.
  
  
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