Done by the hand, without support, or the guidance of instruments; -- of drawing or sculpture; as, free-hand drawing. See under Drawing.
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Open-handed; liberal; given or giving freely or liberally; as, a freehanded host.
Open; frank; unreserved; liberal; generous; as, free-hearted mirth. Opposite of stingy.
to work on a free-lance basis; to work as a freelancer.
a freelance{2}, n.
One who gratifies his physical appetites without stint; one given to indulgence in eating and drinking.
Unrestrained indulgence of the appetites as a way of life.
Living independently of other organisms; not parasitic or commensal.
The doctrine or practice of consorting with the opposite sex, at pleasure, without marriage.
One who believes in or practices free-love.
An imperfect female calf, twinborn with a male, which is sterile as a result of exposure to masculinizing hormones.
Yielding free gold or silver; -- said of certain ores which can be reduced by crushing and amalgamation, without roasting or other chemical treatment.
Not perplexed; having a mind free from care.
permitted to graze or forage rather than being confined to a feedlot; -- of livestock and domestic poultry.
a reed that does not fit closely over the aperture.
Pertaining to, or advocating, the non-extension of slavery; -- esp. applied to a party which was active during the period 1846-1856.
Accustomed to speak without reserve; willing to speak out without subtlety.
Swimming in the open sea; -- said of certain marine animals.
inclined to forms one's own opinions rather than depend upon authority, especially about social and religious issues; exhibiting boldness of speculation; skeptical of authority.
Speaking without reserve.
One who plunders or pillages without the authority of national warfare; a member of a predatory band; a pillager; a buccaneer; a sea robber.
The act, practice, or gains of a freebooter; freebooting.
Acting the freebooter; practicing freebootery; robbing.
Freebootery.
Born free; not born in vassalage; inheriting freedom.
A man who has been a slave, and has been set free.
The state of being free; exemption from the power and control of another; liberty; independence.
See Fridstol.
a woman who has been freed from slavery. Correlative of freedman.
An estate in real property, of inheritance (in fee simple or fee tail) or for life; or the tenure by which such estate is held.
The possessor of a freehold.
of or pertaining to a freelance{2}; as, a freelance photographer.
Frailty.
In a free manner; without restraint or compulsion; abundantly; gratuitously.
One who enjoys liberty, or who is not subject to the will of another; one not a slave or vassal.
One of an ancient and secret association or fraternity, said to have been at first composed of masons or builders in stone, but now consisting of persons who are united for social enjoyment and mutual assistance.
Pertaining to, or resembling, the institutions or the practices of freemasons; as, a freemasonic signal.
The institutions or the practices of freemasons.
The state or quality of being free; freedom; liberty; openness; liberality; gratuitousness.
One who frees, or sets free.
Having the flesh readily separating from the stone, as in certain kinds of peaches.
A small swift bat with leathery ears and a long tail; common in warm regions.
A small swift bat with leathery ears and a long tail; common in warm regions.
One who speculates or forms opinions independently of the authority of others; esp., in the sphere or religion, one who forms opinions independently of the authority of revelation or of the church; an unbeliever; -- a term assumed by deists and skeptics in the eighteenth century.
Undue boldness of speculation; unbelief.
The capital city of Sierra Leone. Population (2000) = 1,300,000.
Of a freewheel cycle, to run on while the pedals are held still. Of a person, to ride a cycle of this manner; to coast in a vehicle having a freewheel. To ride a freewheel cycle.
Someone acting freely or even irresponsibly.
Acting heedless of consequences; acting without controls, external or internal; as, freewheeling foolishness.
Of or pertaining to free will; voluntary; spontaneous; as, a freewill offering.
Capable of being frozen.
The act of congealing, or the state of being congealed.
dried by freezing and applying a vacuum; -- used of tissue or blood or serum or other biological substances.
to remove the moisture from (e.g. food) by first freezing and then subjecting to a high vacuum; -- used as a mild method for drying foods or chemicals while causing little decomposition, in contrast to heat-drying.
One who, or that which, cools or freezes, as a refrigerator, or the tub and can used in the process of freezing ice cream.
Tending to freeze; for freezing; hence, cold or distant in manner.
The type genus of the Fregatidae.
A natural family including the genus Fregata, of frigate birds.
A sulphide of antimony, lead, and silver, occuring in monoclinic crystals.
To load with goods, as a ship, or vehicle of any kind, for transporting them from one place to another; to furnish with freight; as, to freight a ship; to freight a car.
The charge for transportation; the expense of carriage.
One who loads a ship, or one who charters and loads a ship.
Destitute of freight.
In Germany and Austria, a baron.
In Mexico, the southwestern United States, and the West Indies, any cultivated bean of the genus Phaseolus, esp. the black seed of a variety of P. vulgaris.
Frailty.
Strange; foreign.
Becoming murmurous, roaring.
Palpable vibration or thrill; as, the rhonchial fremitus.
A stranger.
The language spoken in France.
Strips of potatoes, usually cut with a rectangular cross-section, cooked by immersing in hot fat or oil.
to cook by immersing in hot fat.
able to communicate in French.
To make French; to infect or imbue with the manners or tastes of the French; to Gallicize.
A French mode or characteristic; an idiom peculiar to the French language.
A native or one of the people of France.
Distracted; mad; frantic; phrenetic; frenzied.
Frenetic; frantic; frenzied.
A cheek stripe of color.
A connecting fold of membrane serving to support or restrain any part; as, the fr/num of the tongue.
Frantic.
Affected with frenzy; frantic; maddened.
To affect with frenzy; to drive to madness
having passions unrestrained by reason.
A crowd; a throng; a concourse.
The condition of returning frequently; occurrence often repeated; common occurence; as, the frequency of crimes; the frequency of miracles.
To visit often; to resort to often or habitually; as, to frequent a tavern.
Accessible.
The practice or habit of frequenting.
The act or habit of frequenting or visiting often; resort.
Serving to express the frequent repetition of an action; as, a frequentative verb. A frequentative verb.
One who frequents; one who often visits, or resorts to customarily.
At frequent or short intervals; many times; often; repeatedly; commonly.
The quality of being frequent.
A friar.
A cool walk; shady place.
To paint in fresco, as walls.
To refresh; to freshen.
recently cut; -- of flowers; as, a fresh-cut bouquet.
Unpracticed.
Of, pertaining to, or living in, water which is not salty; as, fresh-water geological deposits; a fresh-water fish; fresh-water mussels.
To grow fresh; to lose saltness.
a first-year undergraduate.
A stream of fresh water.
In a fresh manner; vigorously; newly, recently; brightly; briskly; coolly; as, freshly gathered; freshly painted; the wind blows freshly.
A novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge; especially, a student during his first year in a high school, college, or university.
The state of being a freshman.
Refreshment.
The state of being fresh.
to eat copiously and without restraint; to snack frequently.
To furnish with frets, as an instrument of music.
Disposed to fret; ill-humored; peevish; angry; in a state of vexation; as, a fretful temper.
A narrow-bladed fine-toothed saw for cutting curved outlines.
A vitreous compound, used by potters in glazing, consisting of lime, silica, borax, lead, and soda.
Ornamented with fretwork; furnished with frets; variegated; made rough on the surface.
Rubbed; marked; as, pock-fretten, marked with the smallpox.
One who, or that which, frets.
Adorned with fretwork.
A strait, or arm of the sea.
Work adorned with frets; ornamental openwork or work in relief, esp. when elaborate and minute in its parts. Hence, any minute play of light and shade, dark and light, or the like.
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