Free-silver
noun, Economics.
1.
the free coinage of silver, especially at a fixed ratio with gold.
noun
1.
the unlimited minting of silver coins, esp when at a fixed ratio to gold
Read Also:
- Freeside
adverb Outside the walls of a prison: He yearns to live freeside again (1950s+ Prison)
- Free-skate
noun, Figure Skating. 1. a freestyle competition with no required elements, in which skaters perform an original program of jumps, spins, sequences, etc., to music of their choice. noun phrase Something simple and easy; picnic, piece of cake: This lawsuit isn’t a free skate [1990s+; fr the skating-rink custom of occasionally allowing an unpaid period […]
- Free-socage
noun 1. Medieval History. land held by a tenant who rendered certain honorable and nonservile duties to his lord.
- Free-soil
[free-soil] /ˈfriˈsɔɪl/ adjective, U.S. History. 1. pertaining to or opposing the extension of slavery in the Territories. 2. pertaining to or characteristic of the Free Soil party. noun, U.S. History. 1. a region, especially a U.S. territory, prohibiting slavery prior to the Civil War.
- Free-soil-party
noun 1. a former U.S. political party (1848–56) that opposed the extension of slavery in the Territories not yet admitted to statehood. noun 1. a former US political party opposing slavery from 1848 until 1854 when it merged with the Republican party