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1492 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 47 A lettre, vnder the sam seil, of the freing of the custum of lenterwar, futevel, and other sic.

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 111 The perfect manumising and freeing of bondmen, is called Vindicta.

1632 P. Massinger Emperour of East v. i. sig. K4^v The freeing of an innocent From the Emperours furious iealousie.

1689 P. Bellon Court Secret: 1st Pt. Ep. Ded. sig. A4 The Freeing of our Distressed Country from those many heavy Pressures under which it had lain groaning so long.

1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Alcoholization, a reducing Bodies to a fine and impalpable Powder; also a freeing of Spirits from Phlegm and waterish Parts.

1734 High Peak Articles in Compl. Mineral Laws 23 Such working and freeing of the said new Taker.

1850 E. B. Browning tr. Æschylus Prometheus Bound (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 142 Here's an arm, at least, Grappled past freeing.

1898 Argosy Sept. 372 The family lawyer was summoned and the freeing of Custis Marston's slaves and the signing over of his part of the estate consummated.

1928 Cent. Mag. May 118/1 Your democracy and freeing of your lower classes has brought you under the domination of a mass-mind culture.

1985 P. Abrahams View from Coyaba iii. i. 131 We did not know of the freeing of the slaves.

2001 P. Barham Sci. Cooking vi. 68 This freeing of bound water on freezing is why frozen meats often seem to be drier than fresh ones.

1917 A. Ehrenfried tr. F. Krause Text Bk. Surg. Operations II. 303 During the freeing-up of the bony attachments and prying-out of the jaw, the patient remained half awake.

1971 Jrnl. Marriage & Family 33 690/1 The kind of openness..fostered in the encounter group setting encourages..a freeing up of possibilities.

1996 L. Al-Hafidh et al. Europe: Rough Guide (ed. 3) ii. vii. 245/1 With the freeing-up of travel restrictions to..Estonia, Helsinki has become a base for trips to Tallinn.

2002 Tractor & Machinery Dec. 6 The initial immobility was overcome by freeing up of the steering clutches.

1851 Act 14 & 15 Victoria c. 94 Sched. i. §11 Being called the Freeing Dish.

1960 Mining Engineer Dec. 145/2 In Derbyshire, certain customs exist in relation to the working of lead ore... A miner, before obtaining a 'gift', is bound to pay a ‘freeing dish’—that is so much ore as would fill a dish of specified measurement.

1998 J. H. Rieuwerts Gloss. Derbyshire Lead Mining Terms 76/2 Before a new vein could be worked a dish of ore, known as a freeing-dish was paid to the Barmaster.

1875 Times 10 Mar. 11/1 The freeing ports under the gun ports relieved the ship very soon of the water.

1988 Motorboats Monthly Oct. 50/1 Although the cockpit is self-draining, there are also freeing ports at the aft end as further assurance of clearing any large volumes of water.