Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FREE, v.t.

1. To remove from a thing any encumbrance or obstruction; to disengage from; to rid; to strip; to clear; as, to free the body from clothes; to free the feet from fetters; to free a channel from sand.
2. To set at liberty; to rescue or release from slavery, captivity or confinement; to loose; the prisoner is freed from arrest.
3. To disentangle; to disengage.
4. To exempt. He that is dead is freed from sin. Rom. vi.
5. To manumit; to release from bondage; as, to free a slave.
6. To clear from water, as a ship by pumping.
7. To release from obligation or duty. To free from or free of, is to rid of, by removing, in any manner.