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In a free manner; without restraint or compulsion; abundantly; gratuitously. Of every tree of the garden thou mayst freely eat. Gen. ii. 16. Freely ye have received, freely give. Matt. x. 8. Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell. Milton. Freely we serve Because we freely love. Milton.

e, who has the right to vote at elections. See Liveryman. Burrill. Both having been made freemen on the same day. Addison.

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.

A stone composed of sand or grit; -- so called because it is easily cut or wrought.

y deists and skeptics in the eighteenth century. Atheist is an old-fashioned word: I'm a freethinker, child. Addison.

Undue boldness of speculation; unbelief. Berkeley. -- a.

he rear wheel when the pedals are rotated forwards, but permits the rear wheel to run on free from the rear sprocket when the pedals are stopped or rotated backwards. Freewheelcycles are usually fitted with hub brakes or rim brakes, operated by back pedaling.

Of or pertaining to free will; voluntary; spontaneous; as, a freewill offering. Frewill Baptists. See under Baptist.

Capable of being frozen.

old, or as with cold; to suffer loss of animation or life by lack of heat; as, the blood freezes in the veins. To freeze up (Fig.), to become formal and cold in demeanor. [Colloq.]

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. -- Frrez"ing*ly, adv. Freezing machine. See Ice machine, under Ice. -- Freezing mixture, a mixture (of salt and snow or of chemical salts) for producing intense cold. -- Freezing point, that degree of a thermometer at which a fluid begins to freeze;…

A small oleaceous tree (Chionanthus virginica), of the southern United States, having clusters of white flowers with slender petals. It is often cultivated.

The West Indian Sciadophyllum Brownei, a tree with very large digitate leaves.

A name given to the small trees called guelder-rose (Viburnum Opulus), cornel (Cornus sanguinea), and spindle tree (Euonymus Europæus).

Light green. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.