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the rear wheel when the pedals are rotated forwards, but permits the rear wheel to run on free from the rear sprocket when the pedals are stopped or rotated backwards. Freewheelcycles are usually fitted with hub brakes or rim brakes, operated by back pedaling.

Of or pertaining to free will; voluntary; spontaneous; as, a freewill offering. Frewill Baptists. See under Baptist.

Capable of being frozen.

cold, or as with cold; to suffer loss of animation or life by lack of heat; as, the blood freezes in the veins. To freeze up (Fig.), to become formal and cold in demeanor. [Colloq.]

One who, or that which, cools or freezes, as a refrigerator, or the tub and can used in the process of freezing ice cream.

Tending to freeze; for freezing; hence, cold or distant in manner. -- Frrez"ing*ly, adv. Freezing machine. See Ice machine, under Ice. -- Freezing mixture, a mixture (of salt and snow or of chemical salts) for producing intense cold. -- Freezing point, that degree of a thermometer at which a fluid begins to freeze;…

Same as Afrit.

A powerful evil jinnee, demon, or monstrous giant.

See Afrit.

To set free. [Obs.] "The enfreed Antenor." Shak.

To set free. [Obs.] Shak.

To freeze; to congeal. [Obs.] Thou hast enfrozened her disdainful breast. Spenser.

Free from the power of love. "In maiden meditation, fancy- free." Shak.

Free to excess; too liberal; too familiar. -- O"ver*free"ly, adv.

Free from payment of scot; untaxed; hence, unhurt; clear; safe. Do as much for this purpose, and thou shalt pass scot-free. Sir W. Scott. Then young Hay escaped scot-free to Holland. A. Lang.

Free from charge or expense; hence, unpunished; scot-free. [Obs.] Shak.

Not free; held in bondage. There had always been a slave class, a class of the unfree, among the English as among all German peoples. J. R. Green

To thaw. [Obs.]

A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease.

Careless freedom or ease; abandon. [R.] Carlyle.