free adj. (the foll. are the chief obs. senses)
1.
of
noble or honourable character, generous, magnanimous
Tw.N. I. v. 281,
H8 III. i. 59
“Like and honest
men,”
Troil. I. iii. 235,
IV. v. 138,
Oth. II. iii. 328
“of so , so kind . . . a
disposition,”
III. iii. 199
“your free and noble
nature.”
2.
guiltless, innocent
AYL. II. vii. 85, Tw.N. I. v. 98, Wint. I. ii. 113, 251, II. iii. 30,
H8 III. i. 32
“as a soul,”
Ham. II. ii. 598 [590] “Make mad the guilty and appal
the ,”
III. ii. 255, Oth. III. iii.
255.
