Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FREE-HEART-ED, a. [See Heart.]

1. Open; frank; unreserved.
2. Liberal; charitable; generous.

FREE-HEART'ED-LY, adv.

Unreservedly; liberally.

FREE-HEART'ED-NESS, n.

Frankness; openness of heart; liberality. Burnet.

FREE'HOLD, n.

That land or tenement which is held in fee-simple, fee-tail, or for term of life. It is of two kinds; in deed, and in law. The first is the real possession of such land or tenement; the last is the right a man has to such land or tenement, before his entry or seizure. Eng. Law. Freehold is also extended to such offices as a man bolds in fee or for life. It is also taken in opposition to villenage. Encyc. In the United States, a freehold is an estate which a man holds in his own right, subject to no superior nor to conditions.

FREE'HOLD-ER, n.

One who owns an estate in fee-simple, fee-tail, or for life; the possessor of a freehold. Every juryman must be a freeholder.

FREE'ING, ppr.

Delivering from restraint; releasing from confinement; removing incumbrances or hindrances from any thing; clearing.

FREE'-LIV-ER, n.

One who eats and drinks abundantly.

FREE'-LIV-ING, n.

Full gratification of the appetite.

FREE'LY, adv.

1. At liberty; without vassalage, slavery or dependence.
2. Without restraint, constraint or compulsion; voluntarily. To render a moral agent accountable, he must act freely.
3. Plentifully; in abundance; as, to eat or drink freely.
4. Without scruple or reserve; as, to censure freely.
5. Without impediment or hindrance. Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat. Gen. ii.
6. Without necessity, or compulsion from divine predetermination. Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell. Milton.
7. Without obstruction; largely; copiously. The patient bled freely.
8. Spontaneously; without constraint or persuasion.
9. Liberally; generously; as, to give freely to the poor.
10. Gratuitously; of free will or grace, without purchase or consideration. Freely ye have received, freely give. Matth. x.

FREE'MAN, n. [free and man.]

1. One who enjoys liberty, or who is not subject to the will of another; one not a slave or vassal.
2. One who enjoys or is entitled to a franchise or peculiar privilege; as, the freemen of a city or state.

FREE-MAR'TIN, n.

When a cow produces twins, one of them a male, and the other apparently a female, the latter is most generally (but not invariably) barren; and, on dissection, will be found to have some of the organs of each sex, but neither perfect. Such an animal is called by the English a freemartin, and was called by the Greeks and Romans ταυρα, taura.

FREE'MA-SON, n.

One of the fraternity of masons.

FREE'MIND-ED, a.

Not perplexed; free from care. Bacon.

FREE'NESS, n.

1. The state or quality of being free, unconstrained, unconfined, unincumbered, or unobstructed.
2. Openness; unreservedness; frankness; ingenuousness; candor; as, the freeness of a confession.
3. Liberality; generosity; as, freeness in giving. Spratt.
4. Gratuitousness; as, the freeness of divine grace.

FREE'SCHOOL, n.

1. A school supported by funds, &c., in which pupils are taught without paying for tuition.
2. A school open to admit pupils without restriction.

FREE'SPO-KEN, a.

Accustomed to speak without reserve. Bacon.

FREE'STONE, n.

Any species of stone composed of sand or grit, so called because it is easily cut or wrought.

FREE'THINK-ER, n.

A softer name for a deist; an unbeliever; one who discards revelation.

FREE'THINK-ING, n.

Unbelief. Berkeley.

FREE'TONGU-ED, a.

Speaking without reserve. Bp. Hall.

FREE-WAR'REN, n.

A royal franchise or exclusive right of killing beasts and fowls of warren within certain limits. Encyc.

FREE-WILL', n.

1. The power of directing our own actions without restraint by necessity or fate. Locke.
2. Voluntariness; spontaneousness.

FREE'WO-MAN, n.

A woman not a slave.

FREEZE, n. [in architecture. See FRIEZE.]

FREEZE, v.i. [pret. froze; pp. frozen, or froze. Sax. frysan; D. vriezen; Dan. fryser; Sw. frysa. It coincides in elements with D. vreezen, to fear, that is, to shrink, contract, tremble, shiver, Fr. friser, to curl, whence frissoner, to shiver, Sp. frisar. These are of one family, unless there has been a change of letters. The Italian has fregio, for frieze, and the Gr. φρισσω had for its radical letters φριξω. These may be of a different family. To freeze is to contract. See Class Rd, Rs, No. 14, 19, 25. Qu. Russ. mroz, frost.]

1. To be 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. Water freezes at the temperature of 32 degrees above zero by Fahrenheit's thermometer. Mercury freezes at 40 degrees below zero.
2. To be of that degree of cold at which water congeals. Shak.
3. To chill; to stagnate, or to retire from the extreme vessels; as, the blood freezes in the veins.
4. To be chilled; to shiver with cold.
5. To die by means of cold. We say a man freezes to death.