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The act, practice, or gains of a freebooter; freebooting. Booth.

Acting the freebooter; practicing freebootery; robbing. Your freebooting acquaintance. Sir W. Scott.

Freebootery. [Obs.]

Born free; not born in vasssalage; inheriting freedom.

A man who has been a slave, and has been set free.

The state of being free; exemption from the power and control of another; liberty; independence. Made captive, yet deserving freedom more. Milton.

See Fridstol.

) or for life; or the tenure by which such estate is held. Kent. Burrill. To abate into a freehold. See under Abate.

The possessor of a freehold.

Frailty. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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.

te, 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.

by 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.