adj. FREE, having liberty or immunity, noble, glad, joyful; līber, sui jūris, ingĕnuus, nōbĭlis, lætus :-- Heó ðá freó on hire fóta gangum blíðe hám wæs hweorfende ipsa lībĕro pĕdum incessu dŏmum læta reversa est, Bd. 4, 10; S. 578, 32. Beó he freó he shall be free, L. Alf. 11; Th. i. 46, 3, MS. H: L. In. 3; Th. i. 104, 3, MS. B: Bt. 34, 8; Fox 144, 23. Hú wolde ðé lícian, gif hwylc swíðe ríce cyning næfde nǽnne freóne mon on eallon his ríce how would it please thee, if some very powerful king had not any free man in all his realm? 41, 2 ; Fox 24, 25, MS. Cot. Gif he mǽgburg hæbbe freó if he have a free kindred, L. In. 74; Th. i. 148, 19. Ðǽr freó, móton eard weardigan where free, they might inhabit a country, Andr. Kmbl. 1196; An. 598. Ðá wearþ worn aféded freóra bearna then was a number of noble children brought forth, Cd. 79; Th. 99, 6; Gen. 1642: 131; Th. 166, 26; Gen. 2753. Lǽt me freó lǽdan, eft on éðel let me lead them free, back into their country, 98; Th. 128, 22 ; Gen. 2130: Bt. 41, 2; Fox 244, 30; MS. Cot. Ðæt hý ðý freóran hyge geféngen that they might receive the gladder spirit. Exon. 30 a; Th. 92, 22; Cri. 1512. [Chauc. fre: Laym. freo : Orm. freo, fre: Plat. fri, frij: O. Sax. frí in fri-lik free-born: Frs. fry: O. Frs. fri: Dut. vrij: Ger. frei: M. H. Ger. vri: O. H. Ger. fri: Goth. freis: Dan. Swed, fri: Icel. frí.] DER. múþ-freó. freo