资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

   2. A limit or boundary; a border.

            The very list, the very utmost bound, Of all our
            fortunes.                             --Shak.

   3. The lobe of the ear; the ear itself. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

   4. A stripe. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne.

   5. A roll or catalogue, that is row or line; a record of
      names; as, a list of names, books, articles; a list of
      ratable estate.

            He was the ablest emperor of all the list. --Bacon.

   6. (Arch.) A little square molding; a fillet; -- called also
      {listel}.

   7. (Carp.) A narrow strip of wood, esp. sapwood, cut from the
      edge of a plank or board.

   8. (Rope Making) A piece of woolen cloth with which the yarns
      are grasped by a workman.

   9. (Tin-plate Manuf.)
      (a) The first thin coat of tin.
      (b) A wirelike rim of tin left on an edge of the plate
          after it is coated.

   {Civil list} (Great Britain & U.S.), the civil officers of
      government, as judges, ambassadors, secretaries, etc.
      Hence, the revenues or appropriations of public money for
      the support of the civil officers. More recently, the
      civil list, in England, embraces only the expenses of the
      reigning monarch's household.

   {Free list}.
      (a) A list of articles admitted to a country free of duty.
      (b) A list of persons admitted to any entertainment, as a
          theater or opera, without payment, or to whom a
          periodical, or the like, is furnished without cost.

   Syn: Roll; catalogue; register; inventory; schedule.

   Usage: {List}, {Boll}, {Catalogue}, {Register}, {Inventory},
          {Schedule}. A list is properly a simple series of
          names, etc., in a brief form, such as might naturally
          be entered in a narrow strip of paper. A roll was
          originally a list containing the names of persons
          belonging to a public body (as Parliament, etc.),
          which was rolled up and laid aside among its archives.
          A catalogue is a list of persons or things arranged in
          order, and usually containing some description of the
          same, more or less extended. A register is designed
          for record or preservation. An inventory is a list of
          articles, found on hand in a store of goods, or in the
          estate of a deceased person, or under similar
          circumstances. A schedule is a formal list or
          inventory prepared for legal or business purposes.

资料来源 : WordNet®

free list
     n : a list of commodities that are not subject to tariffs