free (adj.)
liberal, lavish, generous
1H6 I.iii.64[Winchester to Mayor, of Gloucester] O'ercharging your free purses with large fines
2H6 IV.vii.117[Cade to all] we charge and command that ... wives be as free as heart can wish
2H6 IV.viii.8[Buckingham to Cade] we ... here pronounce free pardon to them all / That will forsake thee
Cym I.v.152[Iachimo to Posthumus] provided I have your commendation for my more free entertainment
Ham I.iii.93[Polonius to Ophelia] Have of your audience [with Hamlet] been most free and bounteous
LLL III.i.64[Armado alone, of Mote] voluble and free of grace
LLL V.ii.424[Princess to Berowne, of the gifts] they are free that gave these tokens to us [also: sense 12, uninfected by love]
MM V.i.385[Duke to Isabella, having pardoned her] be you as free to us
Sonn.4.4And being frank she lends to those are free
TC I.iii.235[Aeneas to Agamemnon, of Trojans] Courtiers as free ... / As bending angels [or: sense 3]
TC IV.v.100[Ulysses to Agamemnon, of Troilus] His heart and hand both open and both free
Tim I.ii.181[Second Servant to Timon, of Lucius] Out of his free love, hath presented to you / Four milk-white horses
Tim I.ii.5[Ventidius to Timon] in grateful virtue I am bound / To your free heart
Tim II.ii.239[Flavius to Timon, of a way of thinking] Being free itself, it thinks all others so
Tim III.iv.81[Timon to all] Have I been ever free, and must my house / Be my retentive enemy, my gaol?
TNK V.i.73[Palamon to his knights] You whose free nobleness do make my cause / Your personal hazard
WT IV.iv.545[Camillo to Florizel] Methinks I see / Leontes opening his free arms and weeping / His welcomes forth [or: noble]
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