Leave; permission; authority or liberty given to do or forbear any act. A license may be verbal or written; when written, the paper containing the authority is called a license. A man is not permitted to retail spirituous liquors till he has obtained a license.

Excess of liberty; exorbitant freedom; freedom abused, or used in contempt of law or decorum. License they mean, when they cry liberty.

To permit by grant of authority; to remove legal restraint by a grant of permission; as, to license a man to keep an inn.

To authorize to act in a particular character; as, to license a physician or a lawyer.

To dismiss.