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To deprive of, or free from, hydrogen.

The act or process or freeing from hydrogen; also, the condition resulting from the removal of hydrogen.

One who believes in the existence of a God, but denies revealed religion; a freethinker.

To set free from restraint; to set at liberty; to release; to liberate, as from control; to give up; to free; to save; to rescue from evil actual or feared; -- often with from or out of; as, to deliver one from captivity, or from fear of death. He that taketh warning shall deliver his soul. Ezek. xxxiii. 5. Promise was…

The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like; rescue; as, the deliverance of a captive. He hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives. Luke iv. 18. One death or one deliverance we will share. Dryden.

The act of exerting one's strength or limbs. Neater limbs and freer delivery. Sir H. Wotton.

To free from mesmeric influence; to demesmerize. -- De*mag`net*i*za"tion, n. -- De*mag"net*i`zer, n.

A half-vill, consisting of five freemen or frankpledges. Blackstone.

The act or process of freeing from nitrogen; also, the condition resulting from the removal of nitrogen.

To deprive of, or free from, nitrogen.

A dweller; an inhabitant. "Denizens of air." Pope. Denizens of their own free, independent state. Sir W. Scott.

To free from obstructions; to clear a passage through. [Obs.] Boyle.

To free from paupers; to rescue from poverty. [R.]

A state of being freed from water. [Obs.] Boyle.

The act of freeing from phosphorous.

To free from polarization, as the negative plate of the voltaic battery.

usly, or undervalue and depreciate. Cudworth. To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to depreciate the value of freedom itself. Burke.

Depurated; cleansed; freed from impurities. Boyle.

The act or process of depurating or freeing from foreign or impure matter, as a liquid or wound.

To comment freely; to discourse with fullness and particularity; to discourse at large. A virtuous man should be pleased to find people descanting on his actions. Addison.