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Admission to the freedom of a corporation or body politic; investiture with the privileges of free citizens. Enfranchisement of copyhold (Eng. Law), the conversion of a copyhold estate into a freehold. Mozley & W.

To set free. [Obs.] "The enfreed Antenor." Shak.

To swallow with greediness or in large quantities; to devour. Spenser.

Swallowed with greediness, or in large draughts.

The act of swallowing greedily; a devouring with voracity; a glutting.

ect to a dominant influence. The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose. Milton. Pleasure admitted in undue degree Enslaves the will. Cowper.

A coming in, or entrance; hence, freedom of access; permission or right to enter; as, to have the entrée of a house.

Freed from wrinkles; smooth.

Eskimos resemble the Mongolian race. [Written also Esquimau.] Eskimo dog (Zoöl.), one of breed of large and powerful dogs used by the Eskimos to draw sledges. It closely resembles the gray wolf, with which it is often crossed.

hich is a decision of judgment. It is the commencement of affection." Gogan. No; dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation prized above all price. Cowper.

One who is hungry or greedy. [R.] An insatiable esurient after riches. Wood.

The forms required by good breeding, or prescribed by authority, to be observed in social or official life; observance of the proprieties of rank and occasion; conventional decorum; ceremonial code of polite society. The pompous etiquette to the court of Louis the Fourteenth. Prescott.

angel. [R.] Above all, the Servians . . . read, with much avidity, the evangile of their freedom. Londor.

; as, an excellent man, artist, citizen, husband, discourse, book, song, etc.; excellent breeding, principles, aims, action. To love . . . What I see excellent in good or fair. Milton.

One exempted or freed from duty; one not subject.

The act of exempting; the state of being exempt; freedom from any charge, burden, evil, etc., to which others are subject; immunity; privilege; as, exemption of certain articles from seizure; exemption from military service; exemption from anxiety, suffering, etc.

One of a breed of horned sheep of Devonshire, England, having white legs and face and black nostrils. They are esp. valuable for mutton.

or freeing morally from a charge or imputation; also, the state of being disburdened or freed from a charge.

The quality of being easily performed; freedom from difficulty; ease; as, the facility of an operation. The facility with which government has been overturned in France. Burke .

nation or clique of partisans of any kind, acting for their own interests, especially if greedy, clamorous, and reckless of the common good.