Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Freeze \Freeze\, v. t.

   {To freeze out}, to drive out or exclude by cold or by cold
      treatment; to force to withdraw; as, to be frozen out of
      one's room in winter; to freeze out a competitor.
      [Colloq.]

            A railroad which had a London connection must not be
            allowed to freeze out one that had no such
            connection.                           --A. T.
                                                  Hadley.

            It is sometimes a long time before a player who is
            frozen out can get into a game again. --R. F.
                                                  Foster.
Freiherr \Frei"herr`\, n.; pl. {Freiherrn}. [G., lit., free
   lord.]
   In Germany and Austria, a baron.