6. Clear of offense or crime; guiltless; innocent.

My hands are guilty, but my heart is free.

Dryden.

7. Unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved; ingenuous; frank;

familiar; communicative.

He was free only with a few.

Milward.

8. Unrestrained; immoderate; lavish; licentious; -- used in a bad

sense.

The critics have been very free in their censures.

Felton.

A man may live a free life as to wine or women.

Shelley.

9. Not close or parsimonious; liberal; open- handed; lavish; as, free

with his money.

10. Exempt; clear; released; liberated; not encumbered or troubled

with; as, free from pain; free from a burden; -- followed by from, or,

rarely, by of.

Princes declaring themselves free from the obligations of their

treaties.

Bp. Burnet.

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