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

To deprive, or free from, silver; to remove silver from.

Free from desire. Donne.

The station or government of a despot; also, the domain of a despot. Freeman.

To free from spume or scum. [Obs.] If honey be despumed. Holland.

The doctrine that the will is not free, but is inevitably and invincibly determined by motives. Its superior suitability to produce courage, as contrasted with scientific physical determinism, is obvious. F. P. Cobbe.

Free from debt. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or give forth; as, to develop theories; a motor that develops 100 horse power. These serve to develop its tenets. Milner. The 20th was spent in strengthening our position and de…

), that deviation from a strictly vertical line of descent which occurs in a body falling freely, in consequence of the rotation of the earth. -- Deviation of the compass, the angle which the needle of a ship's compass makes with the magnetic meridian by reason of the magnetism of the iron parts of the ship. -- Devia…

To free from what is vulgar, common, or narrow. Shakespeare and Plutarch's "Lives" are very devulgarizing books. E. A. Abbott.

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

To deprive of, or free from, zinc.

Freely permeable by radiant heat.

Affording a free passage to heat; as, diathermic substances. Melloni.

cean. -- Dip of the needle, or Magnetic dip, the angle formed, in a vertical plane, by a freely suspended magnetic needle, or the line of magnetic force, with a horizontal line; -- called also inclination. -- Dip of a stratum (Geol.), its greatest angle of inclination to the horizon, or that of a line perpendicular t…

One of the free-swimming sexual zooids of Siphonophora.

. [U.S.] Dipping needle, a magnetic needle suspended at its center of gravity, and moving freely in a vertical plane, so as to indicate on a graduated circle the magnetic dip or inclination.

To set free from mistakes; to undeceive; to disengage from fallacy or deception; to set right. To undeceive and disabuse the people. South. If men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves or artifice, hypocrisy, and superstition, they will consider this event as an era in their history. J. Adams.…

To free from acid.

Freed from a former connection or dependence; disconnected. [R.]