Free-swimming to Freshen
Free-swimming
(Free"-swim`ming) a. (Zoöl.) Swimming in the open sea; — said of certain marine animals.
Freethinker
(Free"think`er) n. One who speculates or forms opinions independently of the authority of
others; esp., in the sphere or religion, one who forms opinions independently of the authority of revelation
or of the church; an unbeliever; — a term assumed by deists and skeptics in the eighteenth century.
Atheist is an old-fashioned word: I'm a freethinker, child.
Addison. Syn. — Infidel; skeptic; unbeliever. See Infidel.
Freethinking
(Free"think`ing), n. Undue boldness of speculation; unbelief. Berkeley. — a. Exhibiting
undue boldness of speculation; skeptical.
Free-tongued
(Free"-tongued`) a. Speaking without reserve. Bp. Hall.
Free will
(Free will)
1. A will free from improper coercion or restraint.
To come thus was I not constrained, but did
On my free will.
Shak. 2. The power asserted of moral beings of willing or choosing without the restraints of physical or absolute
necessity.
Freewill
(Free"will`) a. Of or pertaining to free will; voluntary; spontaneous; as, a freewill offering.
Freewill Baptists. See under Baptist.
Freezable
(Freez"a*ble) a. Capable of being frozen.
Freeze
(Freeze) n. (Arch.) A frieze. [Obs.]
Freeze
(Freeze), v. i. [imp. Froze ; p. p. Frozen ; p. pr. & vb. n. Freezing.] [OE. fresen, freosen,
AS. freósan; akin to D. vriezen, OHG. iosan, G. frieren, Icel. frjsa, Sw. frysa, Dan. fryse, Goth.
frius cold, frost, and prob. to L. prurire to itch, E. prurient, cf. L. prna a burning coal, pruina hoarfrost,
Skr. prushva ice, prush to spirt. 18. Cf. Frost.]
1. To become congealed by cold; to be changed from a liquid to a solid state by the abstraction of heat; to
be hardened into ice or a like solid body.
Water freezes at 32° above zero by Fahrenheit's thermometer; mercury freezes at 40° below zero.
2. To become chilled with cold, or as with cold; to suffer loss of animation or life by lack of heat; as, the
blood freezes in the veins.
To freeze up to become formal and cold in demeanor. [Colloq.]
Freeze
(Freeze), v. t.
1. To congeal; to harden into ice; to convert from a fluid to a solid form by cold, or abstraction of heat.
2. To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.
A faint, cold fear runs through my veins,
That almost freezes up the heat of life.
Shak. Freeze
(Freeze), n. The act of congealing, or the state of being congealed. [Colloq.]
