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Having the inferior rays of the pectoral fins partially or entirely free, as in the gurnards.

Free from danger. [R.]

One who receives free tickets for theaters, public conveyances, etc. [Colloq. U. S.]

Free from debt. Chaucer.

Free from deceit. Bp. Hall.

rse, in actions, or in discourse; proper formality; becoming ceremony; seemliness; hence, freedom from obscenity or indecorum; modesty. Observances of time, place, and of decency in general. Burke. Immodest words admit of no defense, For want of decency is want of sense. Roscommon.

Free from immodesty or obscenity; modest.

To free from a charm; to disenchant.

Free from ambiguity; unequivocal; unmistakable; unquestionable; clear; evident; as, a decided advantage. "A more decided taste for science." Prescott.

To make clear; to free from obscurity. [Obs.] "To declare this a little." Boyle.

To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.

Power of action; agency; efficiency. [Obs.] To be, both will and deed, created free. Milton.

Freed from anything that can pollute, as dregs, lees, etc.; refined; purified. Till the soul be defecate from the dregs of sense. Bates.

The act of freeing from inflections. Earle.

To free from inflections. Deflectionized languages are said to be analytic. Earle.

keep from the rightful owner; to withhold wrongfully the possession of, as of lands or a freehold.

Unconstrained; easy; free. Vanbrugh.

To deprive of, or free from, gum; as, to degum ramie.

To deprive of water; to render free from water; as, to dehydrate alcohol.

The act or process of freeing from water; also, the condition of a body from which the water has been removed.