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therefore, the part from which the fiber of the plant is obtained, as that of hemp, etc. Liber cells, elongated woody cells found in the liber.

ing a freeman or gentleman; refined; noble; independent; free; not servile or mean; as, a liberal ancestry; a liberal spirit; liberal arts or studies. " Liberal education." Macaulay. " A liberal tongue." Shak.

Liberal principles; the principles and methods of the liberals in politics or religion; specifically, the principles of the Liberal party.

A liberal.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, liberalism; as, liberalistic opinions.

The quality or state of being liberal; liberal disposition or practice; freedom from narrowness or prejudice; generosity; candor; charity. That liberality is but cast away Which makes us borrow what we can not pay. Denham.

The act of liberalizing.

To make liberal; to free from narrow views or prejudices. To open and to liberalize the mind. Burke.

One who, or that which, liberalizes. Emerson.

In a liberal manner.

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.

The act of liberating or the state of being liberated. This mode of analysis requires perfect liberation from all prejudged system. Pownall.

One who, or that which, liberates; a deliverer.

Tending, or serving, to liberate. [R.]

Pertaining to liberty, or to the doctrine of free will, as opposed to the doctrine of necessity.

Libertarian principles or doctrines.

The destruction of civil liberty.

Libertinism; license. [R.]

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.

The state of a libertine or freedman. [R.] Hammond.