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Admission; approach; access. [R.] Yourself and yours shall have Free adit. Tennyson.

iment; servilely praising; flattering; as, an adulatory address. A mere rant of adulatory freedom. Burke.

who defends, vindicates, or espouses any cause by argument; a pleader; as, an advocate of free trade, an advocate of truth.

Exposure to the free action of the air; airing; as, aëration of soil, of spawn, etc.

or of the nature of, aërobies; as, aërobiotic plants, which live only when supplied with free oxygen.

Easy to be spoken to or addressed; receiving others kindly and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner; courteous; sociable. An affable and courteous gentleman. Shak. His manners polite and affable. Macaulay.

Free from affliction.

To make free; to enfranchise. Johnson.

The act of making free; enfranchisement. [R.]

One who exerts power, or has the power to act; an actor. Heaven made us agents, free to good or ill. Dryden.

Not open to a free current of air; wanting fresh air, or communication with the open air.

Open to a free current of air; exposed to the air; breezy; as, an airy situation.

One of a sect of freethinkers among the Mohammedans.

Pertaining to allodium; freehold; free of rent or service; held independent of a lord paramount; -- opposed to feudal; as, allodial lands; allodial system. Blackstone.

Freehold estate; land which is the absolute property of the owner; real estate held in absolute independence, without being subject to any rent, service, or acknowledgment to a superior. It is thus opposed to feud. Blackstone. Bouvier.

accord, afford, or yield; to let one have; as, to allow a servant his liberty; to allow a free passage; to allow one day for rest. He was allowed about three hundred pounds a year. Macaulay.

permissible; admissible; not forbidden; not unlawful or improper; as, a certain degree of freedom is allowable among friends.

uch alms to the people. Acts x. 2. Alms are but the vehicles of prayer. Dryden. Tenure by free alms. See Frankalmoign. Blackstone.

Of a mixed nature; partaking of two natures. Not in free and common socage, but in this amphibious subordinate class of villein socage. Blackstone.

y are called facultative anaërobia when able to live either in the presence or absence of free oxygen; obligate, or obligatory, anaërobia when they thrive only in its absence.