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Free to excess; regardless of law or moral restraint; licentious. " Most like a liberal villain." Shak.

To release from restraint or bondage; to set at liberty; to free; to manumit; to disengage; as, to liberate a slave or prisoner; to liberate the mind from prejudice; to liberate gases.

One free from restraint; one who acts according to his impulses and desires; now, specifically, one who gives rein to lust; a rake; a debauchee. Like a puffed and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads. Shak.

Freedom from imprisonment, bonds, or other restraint upon locomotion. Being pent from liberty, as I am now. Shak.

One who acts without restraint, or takes a liberty, as if having a license therefor. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Unrestrained by law or morality; lawless; immoral; dissolute; lewd; lascivious; as, a licentious man; a licentious life. "Licentious wickedness." Shak.

To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing. Strained by lifting at a weight too heavy. Locke.

Light eater, one who eats but little. -- Light infantry, infantry soldiers selected and trained for rapid evolutions. -- Light of foot. (a) Having a light step. (b) Fleet. -- Light of heart, gay, cheerful. -- Light oil (Chem.), the oily product, lighter than water, forming the chief part of the first distillate of…

Hence: Any real or imaginary place of restraint or confinement; a prison; as, to put a man in limbo.

That which terminates, circumscribes, restrains, or confines; the bound, border, or edge; the utmost extent; as, the limit of a walk, of a town, of a country; the limits of human knowledge or endeavor. As eager of the chase, the maid Beyond the forest's verdant limits strayed. Pope.

That which limits; a restriction; a qualification; a restraining condition, defining circumstance, or qualifying conception; as, limitations of thought. The cause of error is ignorance what restraints and limitations all principles have in regard of the matter whereunto they are applicable. Hooker.

ass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained.

- Live load (Engin.), a suddenly applied load; a varying load; a moving load; as a moving train of cars on a bridge, or wind pressure on a roof. Live oak (Bot.), a species of oak (Quercus virens), growing in the Southern States, of great durability, and highly esteemed for ship timber. In California the Q. chrysolepis…

A train which receives and deposits passengers or freight along the line of the road; a train for the accommodation of a certain district. [U.S.]

Extended to a great length. The cicadæ hushed their long-drawn, ear-splitting strains. G. W. Cable.

The training ground for a horse. Farrow.

Free from constraint or obligation; not bound by duty, habit, etc. ; -- with from or of. Now I stand Loose of my vow; but who knows Cato's thoughts Addison.

To free from restraint; to set at liberty.. It loosens his hands, and assists his understanding. Dryden.

Not lofty or sublime; humble. These rural poems, and their lowly strain. Dryden.

To indulge with unrestrained delight and freedom; as, to luxuriate in description.