Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for FREE
FREE, v.t.
- 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.
- To set at liberty; to rescue or release from slavery, captivity or confinement; to loose; the prisoner is freed from arrest.
- To disentangle; to disengage.
- To exempt. He that is dead is freed from sin. Rom. vi.
- To manumit; to release from bondage; as, to free a slave.
- To clear from water, as a ship by pumping.
- To release from obligation or duty. To free from or free of, is to rid of, by removing, in any manner.
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