v. t. [ Pref. ad- + freight: cf. F. affréter. See Freight. ] To hire, as a ship, for the transportation of goods or freight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who hires or charters a ship to convey goods. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. affrétement. ] The act of hiring, or the contract for the use of, a vessel, or some part of it, to convey cargo. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. It. affrettare to hasten, fretta haste. ] A furious onset or attack. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Afrit. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Arab. 'ifrīt. ] (Moham. Myth.) A powerful evil jinnee, demon, or monstrous giant. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ Pref. a- + fresh. ] Anew; again; once more; newly. [ 1913 Webster ]

They crucify . . . the Son of God afresh. Heb. vi. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖adv. & a. [ It. al fresco in or on the fresh. ] In the open-air. Smollett. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 the French (Norman) language used in medieval England.
Syn. -- Anglo-Norman [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. See Kaffir. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. Free of trouble and worry and care; as, the carefree joys of childhood; carefree millionaires, untroubled financially.
Syn. -- happy, lighthearted, unworried. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. nonchalant in a cheerful manner.
Syn. -- breezy, airy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. cheerfully irresponsible; as, carefree with his money. Opposite of careful.
Syn. -- devil-may-care, happy-go-lucky, harum-scarum, slaphappy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

4. same as unconcerned. Opposite of concerned.
Syn. -- blithe. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. [ See Chamfron. ] 1. (Carp.) A small gutter; a furrow; a groove. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A chamfer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See 3d Clove, and Gillyflower. ] Spice clove. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prob. from F. conferve, L. conferva, fr. confervere to boil together, in medical language, to heal, grow together. So called on account of its healing power, for which reason it was also called consolida. ] (Bot.) A rough, hairy, perennial plant of several species, of the genus Symphytum. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ A decoction of the mucilaginous root of the “common comfrey” (Symphytum officinale) is used in cough mixtures, etc.; and the gigantic “prickly comfrey” (Symphytum asperrimum) is somewhat cultivated as a forage plant. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] Fellow member of a fraternity; intimate associate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) See Comfrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From &unr_;&unr_;ierre Armand Dufrénoy, a French geologist. ] (Min.) A mineral of a blackish green color, commonly massive or in nodules. It is a hydrous phosphate of iron. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. effrenatio, fr. effrenare to unbridle; ex + frenum a bridle. ] Unbridled license; unruliness. [ Obs. ] Cockeram. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Afrit. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To set free. [ Obs. ] “The enfreed Antenor.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To set free. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To freeze; to congeal. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou hast enfrozened her disdainful breast. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Free from the power of love. “In maiden meditation, fancy-free.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. containing no fat; -- of foods. Opposite of fat-containing.
Syn. -- fatless, nonfat. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

‖n.; pl. Frænula [ NL., dim. of L. fraenum a bridle. ] (Anat.) A frænum.

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Freaked p. pr. & vb. n. Freaking. ] [ Akin to OE. frakin, freken, freckle, Icel. freknur, pl., Sw. fräkne, Dan. fregne, Gr. perkno`s dark-colored, Skr. p&rsdot_;çni variegated. Cf. Freckle, Freck. ] To variegate; to checker; to streak. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Freaked with many a mingled hue. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prob. from OE. frek bold, AS. frec bold, greedly; akin to OHG. freh greedly, G. frech insolent, Icel. frekr greedy, Goth. faíhufriks avaricious. ] 1. A sudden causeless change or turn of the mind; a whim of fancy; a capricious prank; a vagary or caprice. [ 1913 Webster ]

She is restless and peevish, and sometimes in a freak will instantly change her habitation. Spectator.

2. a rare and unpredictable event; as, the July snowstorm was a freak of nature. [ PJC ]

3. an habitual drug user, especially one who uses psychedelic drugs. [ PJC ]

4. an animal or person with a visible congenital abnormality; -- applied especially to those who appear in a circus sideshow. [ PJC ]

Syn. -- Whim; caprice; folly; sport. See Whim. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. to react with irrationality or extreme emotion; to lose one's composure; -- often used in the phrase
freak out. [ PJC ]

2. to become irrational or to experience hallucinations under the influence of drugs; -- often used in the phrase
freak out. [ PJC ]

v. t. 1. to cause (a person) react with great distress or extreme emotion; -- often used in the phrase
freak out. [ PJC ]

a. Freakish. [ Obs. ] Pepys. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Apt to change the mind suddenly; whimsical; capricious. [ 1913 Webster ]

It may be a question whether the wife or the woman was the more freakish of the two. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

Freakish when well, and fretful when she's sick. Pope.

2. rapidly changing and unpredictable; as, freakish weather. [ PJC ]

3. markedly abnormal.
Syn. -- freaky. [ PJC ]

-- Freak"ish*ly, adv. -- Freak"ish*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. marked strangeness or abnormality.
Syn. -- abnormality. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. markedly unusual or abnormal; as, freaky weather.
Syn. -- freakish. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ Cf. Freak, v. t., Freckle. ] To checker; to diversify. [ R. & Poet. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The painted windows, frecking gloom with glow. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Freckled p. pr. & vb. n. Freckling ] To sprinkle or mark with freckles or small discolored spots; to spot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Dim., from the same root as freak, v. t. ] 1. A small yellowish or brownish spot in the skin, particularly on the face, neck, or hands. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any small spot or discoloration. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To become covered or marked with freckles; to be spotted. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Marked with freckles; spotted. “The freckled trout.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being freckled. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of or marked with freckles; sprinkled with spots; freckled. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. frið peace. See Frith inclosure. ] Peace; -- a word used in composition, especially in proper names; as, Alfred; Frederic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Obs. ] See Fridstol. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Freer superl. Freest ] [ OE. fre, freo, AS. freó, frī; akin to D. vrij, OS. & OHG. frī, G. frei, Icel. frī, Sw. & Dan. fri, Goth. freis, and also to Skr. prija beloved, dear, fr. prī to love, Goth. frijōn. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

That which has the power, or not the power, to operate, is that alone which is or is not free. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Liberated, by arriving at a certain age, from the control of parents, guardian, or master. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Not confined or imprisoned; released from arrest; liberated; at liberty to go. [ 1913 Webster ]

Set an unhappy prisoner free. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Not subjected to the laws of physical necessity; capable of voluntary activity; endowed with moral liberty; -- said of the will. [ 1913 Webster ]

Not free, what proof could they have given sincere
Of true allegiance, constant faith, or love. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Clear of offense or crime; guiltless; innocent. [ 1913 Webster ]

My hands are guilty, but my heart is free. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. Unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved; ingenuous; frank; familiar; communicative. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was free only with a few. Milward. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. Unrestrained; immoderate; lavish; licentious; -- used in a bad sense. [ 1913 Webster ]

The critics have been very free in their censures. Felton. [ 1913 Webster ]

A man may live a free life as to wine or women. Shelley. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. Not close or parsimonious; liberal; open-handed; lavish; as, free with his money. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Princes declaring themselves free from the obligations of their treaties. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

11. Characteristic of one acting without restraint; charming; easy. [ 1913 Webster ]

12. Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited; as, a free horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

13. Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; -- followed by of. [ 1913 Webster ]

He therefore makes all birds, of every sect,
Free of his farm. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Why, sir, I pray, are not the streets as free
For me as for you? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

15. Not gained by importunity or purchase; gratuitous; spontaneous; as, free admission; a free gift. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

17. (O. Eng. Law) Certain or honorable; the opposite of base; as, free service; free socage. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

18. (Law) Privileged or individual; the opposite of common; as, a free fishery; a free warren. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

19. Not united or combined with anything else; separated; dissevered; unattached; at liberty to escape; as, free carbonic acid gas; free cells. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. ] “Sal and her free and easy ways.” 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. Freely; willingly. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I as free forgive you
As I would be forgiven. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Without charge; as, children admitted free. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Freed p. pr. & vb. n. Freeing. ] [ OE. freen, freoien, AS. freógan. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Our land is from the rage of tigers freed. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Arise, . . . free thy people from their yoke. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To remove, as something that confines or bars; to relieve from the constraint of. [ 1913 Webster ]

This master key
Frees every lock, and leads us to his person. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To frank. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. unconstrained and informal; as, an informal free-and-easy manner. Opposite of stiff, starchy, formal.
Syn. -- casual. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

2. lacking normal concern for propriety.
Syn. -- free-and-easy. [ PJC ]

v. i. (psychoanalysis) to express one's thoughts, ideas, impressions, etc. in an unplanned and unstructured way, allowing each thought or idea to prompt recollection of the next one. It is a process used in psychotherapy.
Syn. -- associate freely. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (psychoanalysis) The act or process of free-associating. It is a technique used in psychoanalysis and is supposed to allow the analyst access to the unconscious thoughts of the analysand. See free-associate. [ PJC ]

n. 1. (Chem.) The basic form of an organic amine which is capable of forming acid salts such as hydrochlorides. [ PJC ]

2. The basic form of a drug, often more powerful than a salt form because it is more readily absorbed into the blood stream. [ PJC ]

v. i. To ingest the basic form of a narcotic drug, usually by injection. [ PJC ]