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cage
(encz) | cage,branka n: [sport.] Jiří Šmoldas |
cage
(encz) | cage,cela n: Jiří Šmoldas |
cage
(encz) | cage,klec n: Jiří Šmoldas |
cage
(encz) | cage,vězení n: Jiří Šmoldas |
cage
(encz) | cage,vsítit branku v: [sport.] Jiří Šmoldas |
cage
(encz) | cage,zavřít do klece v: Jiří Šmoldas |
Cage
(gcide) | Cage \Cage\, n. [F. cage, fr. L. cavea cavity, cage, fr. cavus
hollow. Cf. Cave, n., Cajole, Gabion.]
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1. A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood
or metal, used for confining birds or other animals.
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In his cage, like parrot fine and gay. --Cowper.
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2. A place of confinement for malefactors --Shak.
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Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage. --Lovelace.
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3. (Carp.) An outer framework of timber, inclosing something
within it; as, the cage of a staircase. --Gwilt.
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4. (Mach.)
(a) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece,
as a ball valve.
(b) A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and
pipes.
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5. The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or
elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft.
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6. (Mining) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting
whim.
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7. (Baseball) The catcher's wire mask.
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Cage
(gcide) | Cage \Cage\ (k[=a]j), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Caged (k[=a]jd); p.
pr. & vb. n. Caging.]
To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine.
"Caged and starved to death." --Cowper.
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cage
(wn) | cage
n 1: an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or
animals can be kept [syn: cage, coop]
2: something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts movement
3: United States composer of avant-garde music (1912-1992) [syn:
Cage, John Cage, John Milton Cage Jr.]
4: the net that is the goal in ice hockey
5: a movable screen placed behind home base to catch balls
during batting practice [syn: batting cage, cage]
v 1: confine in a cage; "The animal was caged" [syn: cage,
cage in] |
cage
(foldoc) | CAGE
Early system on IBM 704. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
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bird cage
(encz) | bird cage,zajatecký tábor n: [slang.] luke |
birdcage
(encz) | birdcage,klec na ptáky Zdeněk Brož |
birdcages
(encz) | birdcages,ptačí klece Zdeněk Brož |
bocage
(encz) | bocage,pastvina rozdělená řadami keřů a stromů n: z francouzštiny Pino |
boscage
(encz) | boscage,houští n: Štěpán Šrubař |
caged
(encz) | caged,zavřený adj: Zdeněk Brož |
cages
(encz) | cages,klece Jiří Šmoldas |
cagey
(encz) | cagey,mazaný Jiří Šmoldascagey,obávající se podvedení či napadení Jiří Šmoldascagey,opatrný Jiří Šmoldascagey,úskočný [zast.] Jiří Šmoldascagey,váhavý adj: Jiří Šmoldascagey,vychytralý Jiří Šmoldas |
iron cage
(encz) | iron cage, n: |
rib cage
(encz) | rib cage, n: |
ribcage
(encz) | ribcage,hrudní koš Zdeněk Brožribcage,žebra n: Zdeněk Brož |
socage
(encz) | socage, n: |
squirrel cage
(encz) | squirrel cage, n: |
thoracic cage
(encz) | thoracic cage,hrudní koš Martin Sliž |
Bell cage
(gcide) | Bell \Bell\, n. [AS. belle, fr. bellan to bellow. See Bellow.]
1. A hollow metallic vessel, usually shaped somewhat like a
cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue,
and giving forth a ringing sound on being struck.
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Note: Bells have been made of various metals, but the best
have always been, as now, of an alloy of copper and
tin.
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The Liberty Bell, the famous bell of the Philadelphia State
House, which rang when the Continental Congress declared
the Independence of the United States, in 1776. It had
been cast in 1753, and upon it were the words "Proclaim
liberty throughout all the land, to all the inhabitants
thereof."
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2. A hollow perforated sphere of metal containing a loose
ball which causes it to sound when moved.
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3. Anything in the form of a bell, as the cup or corol of a
flower. "In a cowslip's bell I lie." --Shak.
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4. (Arch.) That part of the capital of a column included
between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the
naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist
within the leafage of a capital.
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5. pl. (Naut.) The strikes of the bell which mark the time;
or the time so designated.
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Note: On shipboard, time is marked by a bell, which is struck
eight times at 4, 8, and 12 o'clock. Half an hour after
it has struck "eight bells" it is struck once, and at
every succeeding half hour the number of strokes is
increased by one, till at the end of the four hours,
which constitute a watch, it is struck eight times.
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To bear away the bell, to win the prize at a race where the
prize was a bell; hence, to be superior in something.
--Fuller.
To bear the bell, to be the first or leader; -- in allusion
to the bellwether or a flock, or the leading animal of a
team or drove, when wearing a bell.
To curse by bell, book, and candle, a solemn form of
excommunication used in the Roman Catholic church, the
bell being tolled, the book of offices for the purpose
being used, and three candles being extinguished with
certain ceremonies. --Nares.
To lose the bell, to be worsted in a contest. "In single
fight he lost the bell." --Fairfax.
To shake the bells, to move, give notice, or alarm. --Shak.
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Note: Bell is much used adjectively or in combinations; as,
bell clapper; bell foundry; bell hanger; bell-mouthed;
bell tower, etc., which, for the most part, are
self-explaining.
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Bell arch (Arch.), an arch of unusual form, following the
curve of an ogee.
Bell cage, or Bell carriage (Arch.), a timber frame
constructed to carry one or more large bells.
Bell cot (Arch.), a small or subsidiary construction,
frequently corbeled out from the walls of a structure, and
used to contain and support one or more bells.
Bell deck (Arch.), the floor of a belfry made to serve as a
roof to the rooms below.
Bell founder, one whose occupation it is to found or cast
bells.
Bell foundry, or Bell foundery, a place where bells are
founded or cast.
Bell gable (Arch.), a small gable-shaped construction,
pierced with one or more openings, and used to contain
bells.
Bell glass. See Bell jar.
Bell hanger, a man who hangs or puts up bells.
Bell pull, a cord, handle, or knob, connecting with a bell
or bell wire, and which will ring the bell when pulled.
--Aytoun.
Bell punch, a kind of conductor's punch which rings a bell
when used.
Bell ringer, one who rings a bell or bells, esp. one whose
business it is to ring a church bell or chime, or a set of
musical bells for public entertainment.
Bell roof (Arch.), a roof shaped according to the general
lines of a bell.
Bell rope, a rope by which a church or other bell is rung.
Bell tent, a circular conical-topped tent.
Bell trap, a kind of bell shaped stench trap.
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Bird cage
(gcide) | Bird cage \Bird" cage"\, bird-cage \bird-cage\, or Birdcage
\Bird"cage`\, n.
A cage for confining birds.
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Birdcage
(gcide) | Bird cage \Bird" cage"\, bird-cage \bird-cage\, or Birdcage
\Bird"cage`\, n.
A cage for confining birds.
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bird-cage
(gcide) | Bird cage \Bird" cage"\, bird-cage \bird-cage\, or Birdcage
\Bird"cage`\, n.
A cage for confining birds.
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Blocage
(gcide) | Blocage \Blo*cage"\, n. [F.] (Arch.)
The roughest and cheapest sort of rubblework, in masonry.
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boscage
(gcide) | boscage \bos"cage\, n. [OF. boscage grove, F. bocage, fr. LL.
boscus, buscus, thicket, wood. See 1st Bush.]
1. A growth of trees or shrubs; underwood; a thicket; thick
foliage; a wooded landscape.
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2. (O. Eng. Law) Food or sustenance for cattle, obtained from
bushes and trees; also, a tax on wood.
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Brocage
(gcide) | Brocage \Bro"cage\, n.
See Brokkerage.
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Cage
(gcide) | Cage \Cage\, n. [F. cage, fr. L. cavea cavity, cage, fr. cavus
hollow. Cf. Cave, n., Cajole, Gabion.]
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1. A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood
or metal, used for confining birds or other animals.
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In his cage, like parrot fine and gay. --Cowper.
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2. A place of confinement for malefactors --Shak.
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Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage. --Lovelace.
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3. (Carp.) An outer framework of timber, inclosing something
within it; as, the cage of a staircase. --Gwilt.
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4. (Mach.)
(a) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece,
as a ball valve.
(b) A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and
pipes.
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5. The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or
elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft.
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6. (Mining) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting
whim.
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7. (Baseball) The catcher's wire mask.
[1913 Webster]Cage \Cage\ (k[=a]j), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Caged (k[=a]jd); p.
pr. & vb. n. Caging.]
To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine.
"Caged and starved to death." --Cowper.
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Caged
(gcide) | Cage \Cage\ (k[=a]j), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Caged (k[=a]jd); p.
pr. & vb. n. Caging.]
To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine.
"Caged and starved to death." --Cowper.
[1913 Webster]Caged \Caged\ (k[=a]jd), a.
Confined in, or as in, a cage; like a cage or prison. "The
caged cloister." --Shak.
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Cageling
(gcide) | Cageling \Cage"ling\ (k[=a]j"l[i^]ng), n. [Cage + -ling]
A bird confined in a cage; esp. a young bird. [Poetic]
--Tennyson.
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Carucage
(gcide) | Carucage \Car"u*cage\, n. [LL. carrucagium (OF. charuage.), fr.
LL. carruca plow, fr. L. carruca coach.]
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1. (Old Eng. Law.) A tax on every plow or plowland.
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2. The act of plowing. [R.]
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Discage
(gcide) | Discage \Dis*cage"\, v. t.
To uncage. [R.] --Tennyson.
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encage
(gcide) | Incage \In*cage"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Incaged; p. pr. & vb.
n. Incaging.] [Cf. Encage.]
To confine in, or as in, a cage; to coop up. [Written also
encage.] "Incaged birds." --Shak.
[1913 Webster]Encage \En*cage"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Encaged; p. pr. & vb.
n. Engaging.] [Pref. en- + cage: cf. F. encager.]
To confine in a cage; to coop up. --Shak.
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Encage
(gcide) | Incage \In*cage"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Incaged; p. pr. & vb.
n. Incaging.] [Cf. Encage.]
To confine in, or as in, a cage; to coop up. [Written also
encage.] "Incaged birds." --Shak.
[1913 Webster]Encage \En*cage"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Encaged; p. pr. & vb.
n. Engaging.] [Pref. en- + cage: cf. F. encager.]
To confine in a cage; to coop up. --Shak.
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Encaged
(gcide) | Encage \En*cage"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Encaged; p. pr. & vb.
n. Engaging.] [Pref. en- + cage: cf. F. encager.]
To confine in a cage; to coop up. --Shak.
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Free socage
(gcide) | Free \Free\ (fr[=e]), a. [Compar. Freer (-[~e]r); superl.
Freest (-[e^]st).] [OE. fre, freo, AS. fre['o], fr[imac];
akin to D. vrij, OS. & OHG. fr[imac], G. frei, Icel.
fr[imac], Sw. & Dan. fri, Goth. freis, and also to Skr. prija
beloved, dear, fr. pr[imac] to love, Goth. frij[=o]n. Cf.
Affray, Belfry, Friday, Friend, Frith inclosure.]
1. Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under
restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's
own impulses, desires, or inclinations; determining one's
own course of action; not dependent; at liberty.
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That which has the power, or not the power, to
operate, is that alone which is or is not free.
--Locke.
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2. Not under an arbitrary or despotic government; subject
only to fixed laws regularly and fairly administered, and
defended by them from encroachments upon natural or
acquired rights; enjoying political liberty.
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3. Liberated, by arriving at a certain age, from the control
of parents, guardian, or master.
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4. Not confined or imprisoned; released from arrest;
liberated; at liberty to go.
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Set an unhappy prisoner free. --Prior.
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5. Not subjected to the laws of physical necessity; capable
of voluntary activity; endowed with moral liberty; -- said
of the will.
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Not free, what proof could they have given sincere
Of true allegiance, constant faith, or love.
--Milton.
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6. Clear of offense or crime; guiltless; innocent.
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My hands are guilty, but my heart is free. --Dryden.
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7. Unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved;
ingenuous; frank; familiar; communicative.
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He was free only with a few. --Milward.
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8. Unrestrained; immoderate; lavish; licentious; -- used in a
bad sense.
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The critics have been very free in their censures.
--Felton.
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A man may live a free life as to wine or women.
--Shelley.
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9. Not close or parsimonious; liberal; open-handed; lavish;
as, free with his money.
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10. Exempt; clear; released; liberated; not encumbered or
troubled with; as, free from pain; free from a burden; --
followed by from, or, rarely, by of.
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Princes declaring themselves free from the
obligations of their treaties. --Bp. Burnet.
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11. Characteristic of one acting without restraint; charming;
easy.
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12. Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping;
spirited; as, a free horse.
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13. Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying
certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special
rights; -- followed by of.
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He therefore makes all birds, of every sect,
Free of his farm. --Dryden.
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14. Thrown open, or made accessible, to all; to be enjoyed
without limitations; unrestricted; not obstructed,
engrossed, or appropriated; open; -- said of a thing to
be possessed or enjoyed; as, a free school.
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Why, sir, I pray, are not the streets as free
For me as for you? --Shak.
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15. Not gained by importunity or purchase; gratuitous;
spontaneous; as, free admission; a free gift.
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16. Not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending
individual rights against encroachment by any person or
class; instituted by a free people; -- said of a
government, institutions, etc.
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17. (O. Eng. Law) Certain or honorable; the opposite of
base; as, free service; free socage. --Burrill.
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18. (Law) Privileged or individual; the opposite of common;
as, a free fishery; a free warren. --Burrill.
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19. Not united or combined with anything else; separated;
dissevered; unattached; at liberty to escape; as, free
carbonic acid gas; free cells.
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Free agency, the capacity or power of choosing or acting
freely, or without necessity or constraint upon the will.
Free bench (Eng. Law), a widow's right in the copyhold
lands of her husband, corresponding to dower in freeholds.
Free board (Naut.), a vessel's side between water line and
gunwale.
Free bond (Chem.), an unsaturated or unemployed unit, or
bond, of affinity or valence, of an atom or radical.
Free-borough men (O.Eng. Law). See Friborg.
Free chapel (Eccles.), a chapel not subject to the
jurisdiction of the ordinary, having been founded by the
king or by a subject specially authorized. [Eng.]
--Bouvier.
Free charge (Elec.), a charge of electricity in the free or
statical condition; free electricity.
Free church.
(a) A church whose sittings are for all and without
charge.
(b) An ecclesiastical body that left the Church of
Scotland, in 1843, to be free from control by the
government in spiritual matters.
Free city, or Free town, a city or town independent in
its government and franchises, as formerly those of the
Hanseatic league.
Free cost, freedom from charges or expenses. --South.
Free and easy, unconventional; unrestrained; regardless of
formalities. [Colloq.] "Sal and her free and easy ways."
--W. Black.
Free goods, goods admitted into a country free of duty.
Free labor, the labor of freemen, as distinguished from
that of slaves.
Free port. (Com.)
(a) A port where goods may be received and shipped free
of custom duty.
(b) A port where goods of all kinds are received from
ships of all nations at equal rates of duty.
Free public house, in England, a tavern not belonging to a
brewer, so that the landlord is free to brew his own beer
or purchase where he chooses. --Simmonds.
Free school.
(a) A school to which pupils are admitted without
discrimination and on an equal footing.
(b) A school supported by general taxation, by
endowmants, etc., where pupils pay nothing for
tuition; a public school.
Free services (O.Eng. Law), such feudal services as were
not unbecoming the character of a soldier or a freemen to
perform; as, to serve under his lord in war, to pay a sum
of money, etc. --Burrill.
Free ships, ships of neutral nations, which in time of war
are free from capture even though carrying enemy's goods.
Free socage (O.Eng. Law), a feudal tenure held by certain
services which, though honorable, were not military.
--Abbott.
Free States, those of the United States before the Civil
War, in which slavery had ceased to exist, or had never
existed.
Free stuff (Carp.), timber free from knots; clear stuff.
Free thought, that which is thought independently of the
authority of others.
Free trade, commerce unrestricted by duties or tariff
regulations.
Free trader, one who believes in free trade.
To make free with, to take liberties with; to help one's
self to. [Colloq.]
To sail free (Naut.), to sail with the yards not braced in
as sharp as when sailing closehauled, or close to the
wind.
[1913 Webster]Socage \Soc"age\, n.[From Soc; cf. LL. socagium.] (O.Eng. Law)
A tenure of lands and tenements by a certain or determinate
service; a tenure distinct from chivalry or knight's service,
in which the obligations were uncertain. The service must be
certain, in order to be denominated socage, as to hold by
fealty and twenty shillings rent. [Written also soccage.]
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Note: Socage is of two kinds; free socage, where the
services are not only certain, but honorable; and
villein socage, where the services, though certain,
are of a baser nature. --Blackstone.
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free socage
(gcide) | Free \Free\ (fr[=e]), a. [Compar. Freer (-[~e]r); superl.
Freest (-[e^]st).] [OE. fre, freo, AS. fre['o], fr[imac];
akin to D. vrij, OS. & OHG. fr[imac], G. frei, Icel.
fr[imac], Sw. & Dan. fri, Goth. freis, and also to Skr. prija
beloved, dear, fr. pr[imac] to love, Goth. frij[=o]n. Cf.
Affray, Belfry, Friday, Friend, Frith inclosure.]
1. Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under
restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's
own impulses, desires, or inclinations; determining one's
own course of action; not dependent; at liberty.
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That which has the power, or not the power, to
operate, is that alone which is or is not free.
--Locke.
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2. Not under an arbitrary or despotic government; subject
only to fixed laws regularly and fairly administered, and
defended by them from encroachments upon natural or
acquired rights; enjoying political liberty.
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3. Liberated, by arriving at a certain age, from the control
of parents, guardian, or master.
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4. Not confined or imprisoned; released from arrest;
liberated; at liberty to go.
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Set an unhappy prisoner free. --Prior.
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5. Not subjected to the laws of physical necessity; capable
of voluntary activity; endowed with moral liberty; -- said
of the will.
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Not free, what proof could they have given sincere
Of true allegiance, constant faith, or love.
--Milton.
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6. Clear of offense or crime; guiltless; innocent.
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My hands are guilty, but my heart is free. --Dryden.
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7. Unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved;
ingenuous; frank; familiar; communicative.
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He was free only with a few. --Milward.
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8. Unrestrained; immoderate; lavish; licentious; -- used in a
bad sense.
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The critics have been very free in their censures.
--Felton.
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A man may live a free life as to wine or women.
--Shelley.
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9. Not close or parsimonious; liberal; open-handed; lavish;
as, free with his money.
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10. Exempt; clear; released; liberated; not encumbered or
troubled with; as, free from pain; free from a burden; --
followed by from, or, rarely, by of.
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Princes declaring themselves free from the
obligations of their treaties. --Bp. Burnet.
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11. Characteristic of one acting without restraint; charming;
easy.
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12. Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping;
spirited; as, a free horse.
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13. Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying
certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special
rights; -- followed by of.
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He therefore makes all birds, of every sect,
Free of his farm. --Dryden.
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14. Thrown open, or made accessible, to all; to be enjoyed
without limitations; unrestricted; not obstructed,
engrossed, or appropriated; open; -- said of a thing to
be possessed or enjoyed; as, a free school.
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Why, sir, I pray, are not the streets as free
For me as for you? --Shak.
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15. Not gained by importunity or purchase; gratuitous;
spontaneous; as, free admission; a free gift.
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16. Not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending
individual rights against encroachment by any person or
class; instituted by a free people; -- said of a
government, institutions, etc.
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17. (O. Eng. Law) Certain or honorable; the opposite of
base; as, free service; free socage. --Burrill.
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18. (Law) Privileged or individual; the opposite of common;
as, a free fishery; a free warren. --Burrill.
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19. Not united or combined with anything else; separated;
dissevered; unattached; at liberty to escape; as, free
carbonic acid gas; free cells.
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Free agency, the capacity or power of choosing or acting
freely, or without necessity or constraint upon the will.
Free bench (Eng. Law), a widow's right in the copyhold
lands of her husband, corresponding to dower in freeholds.
Free board (Naut.), a vessel's side between water line and
gunwale.
Free bond (Chem.), an unsaturated or unemployed unit, or
bond, of affinity or valence, of an atom or radical.
Free-borough men (O.Eng. Law). See Friborg.
Free chapel (Eccles.), a chapel not subject to the
jurisdiction of the ordinary, having been founded by the
king or by a subject specially authorized. [Eng.]
--Bouvier.
Free charge (Elec.), a charge of electricity in the free or
statical condition; free electricity.
Free church.
(a) A church whose sittings are for all and without
charge.
(b) An ecclesiastical body that left the Church of
Scotland, in 1843, to be free from control by the
government in spiritual matters.
Free city, or Free town, a city or town independent in
its government and franchises, as formerly those of the
Hanseatic league.
Free cost, freedom from charges or expenses. --South.
Free and easy, unconventional; unrestrained; regardless of
formalities. [Colloq.] "Sal and her free and easy ways."
--W. Black.
Free goods, goods admitted into a country free of duty.
Free labor, the labor of freemen, as distinguished from
that of slaves.
Free port. (Com.)
(a) A port where goods may be received and shipped free
of custom duty.
(b) A port where goods of all kinds are received from
ships of all nations at equal rates of duty.
Free public house, in England, a tavern not belonging to a
brewer, so that the landlord is free to brew his own beer
or purchase where he chooses. --Simmonds.
Free school.
(a) A school to which pupils are admitted without
discrimination and on an equal footing.
(b) A school supported by general taxation, by
endowmants, etc., where pupils pay nothing for
tuition; a public school.
Free services (O.Eng. Law), such feudal services as were
not unbecoming the character of a soldier or a freemen to
perform; as, to serve under his lord in war, to pay a sum
of money, etc. --Burrill.
Free ships, ships of neutral nations, which in time of war
are free from capture even though carrying enemy's goods.
Free socage (O.Eng. Law), a feudal tenure held by certain
services which, though honorable, were not military.
--Abbott.
Free States, those of the United States before the Civil
War, in which slavery had ceased to exist, or had never
existed.
Free stuff (Carp.), timber free from knots; clear stuff.
Free thought, that which is thought independently of the
authority of others.
Free trade, commerce unrestricted by duties or tariff
regulations.
Free trader, one who believes in free trade.
To make free with, to take liberties with; to help one's
self to. [Colloq.]
To sail free (Naut.), to sail with the yards not braced in
as sharp as when sailing closehauled, or close to the
wind.
[1913 Webster]Socage \Soc"age\, n.[From Soc; cf. LL. socagium.] (O.Eng. Law)
A tenure of lands and tenements by a certain or determinate
service; a tenure distinct from chivalry or knight's service,
in which the obligations were uncertain. The service must be
certain, in order to be denominated socage, as to hold by
fealty and twenty shillings rent. [Written also soccage.]
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Note: Socage is of two kinds; free socage, where the
services are not only certain, but honorable; and
villein socage, where the services, though certain,
are of a baser nature. --Blackstone.
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Incage
(gcide) | Incage \In*cage"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Incaged; p. pr. & vb.
n. Incaging.] [Cf. Encage.]
To confine in, or as in, a cage; to coop up. [Written also
encage.] "Incaged birds." --Shak.
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Incaged
(gcide) | Incage \In*cage"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Incaged; p. pr. & vb.
n. Incaging.] [Cf. Encage.]
To confine in, or as in, a cage; to coop up. [Written also
encage.] "Incaged birds." --Shak.
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Incagement
(gcide) | Incagement \In*cage"ment\, n.
Confinement in, or as in, cage. [Obs.] --Shelton.
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Piccage
(gcide) | Piccage \Pic"cage\, n. [LL. piccadium, fr. F. piquer to prick.]
(O. Eng. Law)
Money paid at fairs for leave to break ground for booths.
--Ainsworth.
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Safety cage
(gcide) | Safety chain \Safety chain\
(a) (Railroads) A normally slack chain for preventing
excessive movement between a truck and a car body in
sluing.
(b) An auxiliary watch chain, secured to the clothes, usually
out of sight, to prevent stealing of the watch.
(c) A chain of sheet metal links with an elongated hole
through each broad end, made up by doubling the first
link on itself, slipping the next link through and
doubling, and so on.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Safety arch (Arch.), a discharging arch. See under
Discharge, v. t.
Safety belt, a belt made of some buoyant material, or which
is capable of being inflated, so as to enable a person to
float in water; a life preserver.
Safety buoy, a buoy to enable a person to float in water; a
safety belt.
Safety cage (Mach.), a cage for an elevator or mine lift,
having appliances to prevent it from dropping if the
lifting rope should break.
Safety lamp. (Mining) See under Lamp.
Safety match, a match which can be ignited only on a
surface specially prepared for the purpose.
Safety pin, a pin made in the form of a clasp, with a guard
covering its point so that it will not prick the wearer.
Safety plug. See Fusible plug, under Fusible.
Safety switch. See Switch.
Safety touchdown (Football), the act or result of a
player's touching to the ground behind his own goal line a
ball which received its last impulse from a man on his own
side; -- distinguished from touchback. See Touchdown.
Same as safety
Safety tube (Chem.), a tube to prevent explosion, or to
control delivery of gases by an automatic valvular
connection with the outer air; especially, a bent funnel
tube with bulbs for adding those reagents which produce
unpleasant fumes or violent effervescence.
Safety valve, a valve which is held shut by a spring or
weight and opens automatically to permit the escape of
steam, or confined gas, water, etc., from a boiler, or
other vessel, when the pressure becomes too great for
safety; also, sometimes, a similar valve opening inward to
admit air to a vessel in which the pressure is less than
that of the atmosphere, to prevent collapse.
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Socage
(gcide) | Socage \Soc"age\, n.[From Soc; cf. LL. socagium.] (O.Eng. Law)
A tenure of lands and tenements by a certain or determinate
service; a tenure distinct from chivalry or knight's service,
in which the obligations were uncertain. The service must be
certain, in order to be denominated socage, as to hold by
fealty and twenty shillings rent. [Written also soccage.]
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Note: Socage is of two kinds; free socage, where the
services are not only certain, but honorable; and
villein socage, where the services, though certain,
are of a baser nature. --Blackstone.
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Socager
(gcide) | Socager \Soc"a*ger\, n. (O. Eng. Law)
A tennant by socage; a socman.
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soccage
(gcide) | Socage \Soc"age\, n.[From Soc; cf. LL. socagium.] (O.Eng. Law)
A tenure of lands and tenements by a certain or determinate
service; a tenure distinct from chivalry or knight's service,
in which the obligations were uncertain. The service must be
certain, in order to be denominated socage, as to hold by
fealty and twenty shillings rent. [Written also soccage.]
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Note: Socage is of two kinds; free socage, where the
services are not only certain, but honorable; and
villein socage, where the services, though certain,
are of a baser nature. --Blackstone.
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Uncage
(gcide) | Uncage \Un*cage"\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + cage.]
To loose, or release, from, or as from, a cage.
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villein socage
(gcide) | Socage \Soc"age\, n.[From Soc; cf. LL. socagium.] (O.Eng. Law)
A tenure of lands and tenements by a certain or determinate
service; a tenure distinct from chivalry or knight's service,
in which the obligations were uncertain. The service must be
certain, in order to be denominated socage, as to hold by
fealty and twenty shillings rent. [Written also soccage.]
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Note: Socage is of two kinds; free socage, where the
services are not only certain, but honorable; and
villein socage, where the services, though certain,
are of a baser nature. --Blackstone.
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Weighing cage
(gcide) | Weighing \Weigh"ing\,
a. & n. from Weigh, v.
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Weighing cage, a cage in which small living animals may be
conveniently weighed.
Weighing house. See Weigh-house.
Weighing machine, any large machine or apparatus for
weighing; especially, platform scales arranged for
weighing heavy bodies, as loaded wagons.
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batting cage
(wn) | batting cage
n 1: a movable screen placed behind home base to catch balls
during batting practice [syn: batting cage, cage] |
birdcage
(wn) | birdcage
n 1: a cage in which a bird can be kept |
birdcage mask
(wn) | birdcage mask
n 1: a catcher's mask with a strong wire face |
cage in
(wn) | cage in
v 1: confine in a cage; "The animal was caged" [syn: cage,
cage in] |
cager
(wn) | cager
n 1: an athlete who plays basketball [syn: basketball player,
basketeer, cager] |
cagey
(wn) | cagey
adj 1: showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with
others; "a cagey lawyer"; "too clever to be sound" [syn:
cagey, cagy, canny, clever]
2: characterized by great caution and wariness; "a cagey
avoidance of a definite answer"; "chary of the risks
involved"; "a chary investor" [syn: cagey, cagy, chary] |
iron cage
(wn) | iron cage
n 1: a cage from which there is no escape |
john cage
(wn) | John Cage
n 1: United States composer of avant-garde music (1912-1992)
[syn: Cage, John Cage, John Milton Cage Jr.] |
john milton cage jr.
(wn) | John Milton Cage Jr.
n 1: United States composer of avant-garde music (1912-1992)
[syn: Cage, John Cage, John Milton Cage Jr.] |
rib cage
(wn) | rib cage
n 1: the bony enclosing wall of the chest |
socage
(wn) | socage
n 1: land tenure by agricultural service or payment of rent; not
burdened with military service |
squirrel cage
(wn) | squirrel cage
n 1: cage with a cylindrical framework that rotates as a small
animal runs inside it |
BOSCAGE
(bouvier) | BOSCAGE, Eng. law. That food which wood and trees yield to cattle.
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BROCAGE
(bouvier) | BROCAGE, contracts. The wages or commissions of a broker his occupation is
also sometimes called brocage. This word is also spelled brokerage.
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SOCAGE
(bouvier) | SOCAGE, Eng. law. A tenure of lands by certain inferior services in
husbandry, and not knight's service, in lieu of all other services. Litt.
sect. 117.
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