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Free from distrust. Shenstone.

To unyoke; to free from a yoke; to disjoin. [Poetic] R. Browning.

Free excretion of urine.

Incapable of being divorced or separated; free from divorce.

A genus of freeswimming oceanic tunicates, allied to Salpa, and having alternate generations.

State, condition, or quality of being, as in wisdom, freedom.

insolent sway. In such a people, the haugtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom. Burke.

s a present; that which is transferred to another gratuitously; a gift. And some donation freely to estate On the bless'd lovers. Shak.

Free from fear or suspicion. [Obs.] Pretty child, sleep doubtless and secure. Shak.

To select by the drawing of lots. Provided magistracies were filled by men freely chosen or drawn. Freeman.

Free from dread; fearless; intrepid; dauntless; as, dreadless heart. "The dreadless angel." Milton.

Freedom from dread.

Free from, or without, dreams. Camden. -- Dream"less*ly, adv.

e Pope. And they drank, and were merry with him. Gem. xliii. 34. Bolingbroke always spoke freely when he had drunk freely. Thackeray. To drink to, to salute in drinking; to wish well to, in the act of taking the cup; to pledge in drinking. I drink to the general joy of the whole table, And to our dear friend Banquo. Sh…

Free from dross. Stevens.

Free from moisture; having little humidity or none; arid; not wet or moist; deficient in the natural or normal supply of moisture, as rain or fluid of any kind; -- said especially: (a) Of the weather: Free from rain or mist. The weather, we agreed, was too dry for the season. Addison.

To sweeten; to free from acidity, saltness, or acrimony. Wiseman.

To free from dust; to brush, wipe, or sweep away dust from; as, to dust a table or a floor.

One who, or that which, dusts; a utensil that frees from dust. Specifically:

The act of setting free the dynamic powers of a medicine, as by shaking the bottle containing it.