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The entry of a stranger, after a particular estate or freehold is determined, before the person who holds in remainder or reversion has taken possession.

The want of unctuosity; freedom from greasiness or oiliness; as, the inunctuosity of porcelain clay. Kirwan.

rt of the iron, as a carbide, and the rest is uncombined, as graphite. It there is little free carbon, the product is white iron; if much of the carbon has separated as graphite, it is called gray iron. See also Cast iron, in the Vocabulary. -- Fire irons. See under Fire, n. -- Gray irons. See under Fire, n. -- Gray…

ble; above reproach; not deserving reproach; blameless. He [Berkely] erred, -- and who is free from error -- but his intentions were irreproachable. Beattie.

Want of, or freedom from, responsibility or accountability.

To separate from all foreign substances; to make pure; to obtain in a free state.

Free from itching.

To imprison. [R.] T. Adams (1614). [Bolts] that jail you from free life. Tennyson.

The doctrine of Jansen regarding free will and divine grace.

c bishop of Ypres, in Flanders, in the 17th century, who taught certain doctrines denying free will and the possibility of resisting divine grace.

The inner end of a boom or gaff, hollowed in a half circle so as to move freely on a mast.

A name given to a free-booting, unenlisted, armed man or guerrilla.

nner of the Jehovist differs from that of his predecessor [the Elohist]. He is fuller and freer in his descriptions; more reflective in his assignment of motives and causes; more artificial in mode of narration. S. Davidson.

alconer's hand, was attached when used. See Illust. of Falcon. Like a hawk, which feeling freed From bells and jesses which did let her flight. Spenser.

To spring free from the ground by the muscular action of the feet and legs; to project one's self through the air; to spring; to bound; to leap. Not the worst of the three but jumps twelve foot and a half by the square. Shak.

To pronounce free from guilt or blame; to declare or prove to have done that which is just, right, proper, etc.; to absolve; to exonerate; to clear. I can not justify whom the law condemns. Shak.

A nitrogenous substance free from phosphorus, supposed to be present in the brain; a body closely related to cerebrin.

Free from knots; without knots. "Silver firs with knotless trunks." Congreve.

ose of the Civil War, and having for its aim the repression of the political power of the freedmen; -- called also Kuklux Klan.

all paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure. Free lance, in the Middle Ages, and subsequently, a knight or roving soldier, who was free to engage for any state or commander that purchased his services; hence, a person who assails institutions or opinions on his own responsib…