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Free-minded

Not perplexed; having a mind free from care.

free-range

permitted to graze or forage rather than being confined to a feedlot; -- of livestock and domestic poultry.

free-reed

a reed that does not fit closely over the aperture.

Free-soil

Pertaining to, or advocating, the non-extension of slavery; -- esp. applied to a party which was active during the period 1846-1856.

Free-spoken

Accustomed to speak without reserve; willing to speak out without subtlety.

Free-swimming

Swimming in the open sea; -- said of certain marine animals.

free-thinking

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.

Freebooter

One who plunders or pillages without the authority of national warfare; a member of a predatory band; a pillager; a buccaneer; a sea robber.

Freebootery

The act, practice, or gains of a freebooter; freebooting.

Freebooting

Acting the freebooter; practicing freebootery; robbing.

Freeborn

Born free; not born in vassalage; inheriting freedom.

Freedman

A man who has been a slave, and has been set free.

Freedom

The state of being free; exemption from the power and control of another; liberty; independence.

freedwoman

a woman who has been freed from slavery. Correlative of freedman.

Freehold

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.

Freelance

of or pertaining to a freelance{2}; as, a freelance photographer.

Freely

In a free manner; without restraint or compulsion; abundantly; gratuitously.

Freeman

One who enjoys liberty, or who is not subject to the will of another; one not a slave or vassal.

Freemason

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.

Freemasonic

Pertaining to, or resembling, the institutions or the practices of freemasons; as, a freemasonic signal.

Freemasonry

The institutions or the practices of freemasons.

Freeness

The state or quality of being free; freedom; liberty; openness; liberality; gratuitousness.

Freer

One who frees, or sets free.

Freestone

Having the flesh readily separating from the stone, as in certain kinds of peaches.

freetail

A small swift bat with leathery ears and a long tail; common in warm regions.

freetailed bat

A small swift bat with leathery ears and a long tail; common in warm regions.

Freethinker

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.

Freetown

The capital city of Sierra Leone. Population (2000) = 1,300,000.

Freewheel

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.

freewheeler

Someone acting freely or even irresponsibly.

freewheeling

Acting heedless of consequences; acting without controls, external or internal; as, freewheeling foolishness.

freewill free-will

Of or pertaining to free will; voluntary; spontaneous; as, a freewill offering.

Freeze

The act of congealing, or the state of being congealed.

freeze-dried

dried by freezing and applying a vacuum; -- used of tissue or blood or serum or other biological substances.

Freeze-dry

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.

Freezer

One who, or that which, cools or freezes, as a refrigerator, or the tub and can used in the process of freezing ice cream.

Freezing

Tending to freeze; for freezing; hence, cold or distant in manner.

Fregata

The type genus of the Fregatidae.

Fregatidae

A natural family including the genus Fregata, of frigate birds.

Freieslebenite

A sulphide of antimony, lead, and silver, occuring in monoclinic crystals.

Freight

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.

Freightage

The charge for transportation; the expense of carriage.

Freighter

One who loads a ship, or one who charters and loads a ship.

Freiherr

In Germany and Austria, a baron.

Frejol Frijole Frijol

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.

Fremitus

Palpable vibration or thrill; as, the rhonchial fremitus.

French

The language spoken in France.

Frenchify

To make French; to infect or imbue with the manners or tastes of the French; to Gallicize.

Frenchism

A French mode or characteristic; an idiom peculiar to the French language.

Frenchman

A native or one of the people of France.

Frenetic

Distracted; mad; frantic; phrenetic; frenzied.

Frenum

A cheek stripe of color.

frenum fraenum

A connecting fold of membrane serving to support or restrain any part; as, the fr/num of the tongue.

Frenzied

Affected with frenzy; frantic; maddened.

Frenzy

To affect with frenzy; to drive to madness

Frequency

The condition of returning frequently; occurrence often repeated; common occurence; as, the frequency of crimes; the frequency of miracles.

Frequent

To visit often; to resort to often or habitually; as, to frequent a tavern.

Frequentation

The act or habit of frequenting or visiting often; resort.

Frequentative

Serving to express the frequent repetition of an action; as, a frequentative verb. A frequentative verb.

Frequenter

One who frequents; one who often visits, or resorts to customarily.

Frequently

At frequent or short intervals; many times; often; repeatedly; commonly.

Fresco

To paint in fresco, as walls.

Fresh

To refresh; to freshen.

fresh-cut

recently cut; -- of flowers; as, a fresh-cut bouquet.

Fresh-water

Of, pertaining to, or living in, water which is not salty; as, fresh-water geological deposits; a fresh-water fish; fresh-water mussels.

Freshen

To grow fresh; to lose saltness.

Freshly

In a fresh manner; vigorously; newly, recently; brightly; briskly; coolly; as, freshly gathered; freshly painted; the wind blows freshly.

Freshman

A novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge; especially, a student during his first year in a high school, college, or university.

fress

to eat copiously and without restraint; to snack frequently.

Fret

To furnish with frets, as an instrument of music.

Fretful

Disposed to fret; ill-humored; peevish; angry; in a state of vexation; as, a fretful temper.

fretsaw

A narrow-bladed fine-toothed saw for cutting curved outlines.

Frett

A vitreous compound, used by potters in glazing, consisting of lime, silica, borax, lead, and soda.

Fretted

Ornamented with fretwork; furnished with frets; variegated; made rough on the surface.

Fretten

Rubbed; marked; as, pock-fretten, marked with the smallpox.

Fretter

One who, or that which, frets.

Fretum

A strait, or arm of the sea.

Fretwork

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.

Freud

Sigmund Freud, the founder of the practise of psychoanalysis. Born 1856, died 1939.

Freudian

of or pertaining to Sigmund Freud; as, Freudian theories.

Freya

The daughter of Nj/rd, and goddess of love and beauty; the Scandinavian Venus; -- in Teutonic myths confounded with Frigga, but in Scandinavian, distinct.

Freyr Frey

The god of earth's fertility and peace and prosperity, presiding over rain, sunshine, and all the fruits of the earth, dispensing wealth among men; son of Njorth (Njord) and brother of Freya; originally of the Vanir; later with the Aesir. He was especially worshipped in the temple at Upsala in Sweden

Friabiiity

The quality of being friable; friableness.

Friable

Easily crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder.

Friar

A brother or member of any religious order, but especially of one of the four mendicant orders, viz: (a) Minors, Gray Friars, or Franciscans. (b) Augustines. (c) Dominicans or Black Friars. (d) White Friars or Carmelites. See these names in the Vocabulary.

friar's-cowls friar's-cowl

A tuberous perennial (Arisarum vulgare) having a cowl-shaped maroon or violet-black spathe; -- found in the Mediterranean, Canaries, and Azores.

Friarly

Like a friar; inexperienced.

Friary

A monastery; a convent of friars.

Friation

The act of breaking up or pulverizing.

Fribble

To act in a trifling or foolish manner; to act frivolously.

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