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Free from bias or prejudice; impartial; unbiased; disinterested. In choice of committees for ripening business for the counsel, it is better indifferent persons than to make an indifferency by putting in those that are strong on both sides. Bacon. Indifferent tissue (Anat.), the primitive, embryonic, undifferentiated t…

Wanting; void; free; destitute; -- used with of. [Obs.] Bacon.

Freedom from disturbance; calmness; repose; apathy; indifference.

Freedom from that which pains, or harasses, as toil, care, grief, etc. [Obs.] I have ease, if it may not rather be called indolence. Bp. Hough.

Free from toil, pain, or trouble. [Obs.]

o give way to; not to oppose or restrain; (a) when said of a habit, desire, etc.: to give free course to; to give one's self up to; as, to indulge sloth, pride, selfishness, or inclinations; (b) when said of a person: to yield to the desire of; to gratify by compliance; to humor; to withhold restraint from; as, to indu…

Freedom or exemption from error; infallibility. Eikon Basilike.

Situated below some other organ; -- said of a calyx when free from the ovary, and therefore below it, or of an ovary with an adherent and therefore inferior calyx.

The act of infesting or state of being infested; molestation; vexation; annoyance. Bacon. Free from the infestation of enemies. Donne.

ot believe in the divine origin and authority of Christianity; a Mohammedan; a heathen; a freethinker.

Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble; as, ingenuous blood of birth.

ulpable. [Obs.] Milton. Till the injurious Roman did extort This tribute from us, we were free. Shak.

The state or quality of being innocent; freedom from that which is harmful or infurious; harmlessness.

Not harmful; free from that which can injure; innoxious; innocuous; harmless; as, an innocent medicine or remedy. The spear Sung innocent,and spent its force in air. Pope.

Free from hurtful qualities or effects; harmless. "Innoxious flames." Sir K. Digby.

within; private thoughts and feelings. Here's none but friends; we may speak Our insides freely. Massinger.

Freedom from thirst. [Obs.] The insitiency of a camel for traveling in deserts. Grew.

Moral soundness; honesty; freedom from corrupting influence or motive; -- used especially with reference to the fulfillment of contracts, the discharge of agencies, trusts, and the like; uprightness; rectitude. The moral grandeur of independent integrity is the sublimest thing in nature. Buckminster. Their sober zeal,…

An encroachment or infringement. The slight intrenchment upon individual freedom. Southey.

intricacy of accounts; the intricacy of a cause in controversy; the intricacy of a plot. Freed from intricacies, taught to live The easiest way. Milton.