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Freedom or relief from impediment or perplexity.

Freed from restraint; unrestrained. [Archaic] E. A. Poe.

Freedom or deliverance from encumbrance, or anything burdensome or troublesome. Spectator.

Freedom from engrossing occupation; leisure. Disengagement is absolutely necessary to enjoyment. Bp. Butler.

Freed from a shroudlike covering; unveiled. The disenshrouded statue. R. Browning.

To release from thralldom or slavery; to give freedom to; to disinthrall. [Written also disenthral.] Milton.

The act or process of freeing from an illusion, or the state of being freed therefrom. Lowell.

The act of freeing from an illusion, or the state of being freed therefrom.

Freedom from passion; an undisturbed state; apathy. Sir W. Temple.

; to fix the condition, application, employment, etc. of; to direct or assign for a use. Freedom to order their actions and dispose of their possessions and persons. Locke.

Marked by dissensions; apt to breed discord; quarrelsome; contentious; factious. -- Dis*sen"tious*ly, adv.

rcise of discernment; discrimination. To take away therefore that error, which confusion breedeth, distinction is requisite. Hooker.

Torn asunder; separated. [Obs.] "His greedy throat . . . distraught." Spenser.

To differ from a typical form; to vary from a normal condition; to dissent from a creed or position generally held or taken.

State, condition, or quality of being, as in wisdom, freedom.

nsolent sway. In such a people, the haugtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom. Burke.

It is done or agreed; let it be a match or bargain; -- used elliptically. Done brown, a phrase in cookery; applied figuratively to one who has been thoroughly deceived, cheated, or fooled. [Colloq.] -- Done for, tired out; used up; collapsed; destroyed; dead; killed. [Colloq.] -- Done up. (a) Wrapped up. (b) Worn out;…

One of a breed of large-bodied domestic fowls, having five toes, or the hind toe double. There are several strains, as the white, gray, and silver-gray. They are highly esteemed for the table.

considerable height above the ground, and having compartments, in which domestic pigeons breed; a dove house. Like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli. Shak.

Freedom from dread.