adj

• (social) Unconstrained.
  "He was given free rein to do whatever he wanted."
• (social) Unconstrained.
  "Free Blacks"
• (social) Unconstrained.
  "He's very free with his money."
• (social) Unconstrained.
  "My hands are guilty, but my heart is free."

adv

• (obsolete) Freely; willingly.
  "I as free forgive you / As I would be forgiven."

verb

• (transitive) To make free; set at liberty; release.
  "Pro.[…]Spirit, fine ſpirit, Ile free thee / Within two dayes for this."
• (transitive) To rid of something that confines or oppresses. [with from]
  "Then I walked about, till I found on the further side, a great river of sweet water, running with a strong current; whereupon I called to mind the boat-raft I had made aforetime and said to myself, "Needs must I make another; haply I may free me from this strait. If I escape, I have my desire and I vow to Allah Almighty to forswear travel; and if I perish I shall be at peace and shall rest from toil and moil.""
• (transitive, programming) To relinquish (previously allocated memory) to the system.
  "There is no way to access that original area of memory, nor is there any way to free it before the program ends."

noun

• (Australian rules football, Gaelic football) Abbreviation of free kick.
  "Whether deserved or not, the free gave Cresswell the chance to cover himself in glory with a shot on goal after the siren."
• (soccer) A free transfer.
  "Hargreaves, who left Manchester United on a free during the summer, drilled a 22-yard beauty to open the scoring."
• (hurling) The usual means of restarting play after a foul is committed, where the non-offending team restarts from where the foul was committed.
• (swimming, informal) Abbreviation of freestyle.
  "The team won the 200 meters free relay."