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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 from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon.

To dismiss, let go, or release. [Obs.]

To release from individual ownership or possession. Milton.

To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty; as, to discharge a prisoner.

A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband.

To release from that with which anything is engaged, engrossed, involved, or entangled; to extricate; to detach; to set free; to liberate; to clear; as, to disengage one from a party, from broils and controversies, from an oath, promise, or occupation; to disengage the affections a favorite pursuit, the mind from study…

To free from entanglement; to release from a condition of being intricately and confusedly involved or interlaced; to reduce to orderly arrangement; to straighten out; as, to disentangle a skein of yarn.

To release from thralldom or slavery; to give freedom to; to disinthrall. [Written also disenthral.] Milton.

To release from espousal or plighted faith. [Poetic] Milton.

Release from obligation. Jer. Taylor.

To release from obligation. [Obs.] Absolving and disobliging from a more general command for some just and reasonable cause. Milton.

Release from obligation. [Obs.]

To set at large; to release from inclosure. Till his free muse threw down the pale, And did at once dispark them all. Waller.

on of, as a form, a ceremony, an oath; to suspend the operation of, as a law; to give up, release, or do without, as services, attention, etc.; to forego; to part with. (b) To allow by dispensation; to excuse; to exempt; to grant dispensation to or for. [Obs.] "Conniving and dispensing with open and common adultery." M…

To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release; as, to dissolve an injunction.

m the cylinder at each stroke of the piston; viz., admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next admission. Geographical distribution, the natural arrangements of animals and plants in particular regions or districts.

To release from pressure or restraint; to move gently; to lift slightly; to shift a little; as, to ease a bar or nut in machinery.

To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty. Eliminate my spirit, give it range Through provinces of thought yet unexplored. Young.

A setting at large, or being set at large; release from confinement, servitude, or distress; liberty. Give enlargement to the swain. Shak.