n. [ F. volontaire. See Voluntary, a. ] 1. One who enters into, or offers for, any service of his own free will. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mil.) One who enters into service voluntarily, but who, when in service, is subject to discipline and regulations like other soldiers; -- opposed to conscript; specifically, a voluntary member of the organized militia of a country as distinguished from the standing army. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) A grantee in a voluntary conveyance; one to whom a conveyance is made without valuable consideration; a party, other than a wife or child of the grantor, to whom, or for whose benefit, a voluntary conveyance is made. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A plant, especially a flowering plant in a garden, that appears spontaneously without having been intentionally planted. [ RDH ]

a. Of or pertaining to a volunteer or volunteers; consisting of volunteers; voluntary; as, volunteer companies; volunteer advice. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Volunteered p. pr. & vb. n. Volunteering. ] To offer or bestow voluntarily, or without solicitation or compulsion; as, to volunteer one's services. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To enter into, or offer for, any service of one's own free will, without solicitation or compulsion; as, he volunteered in that undertaking. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A navy of vessels fitted out and manned by volunteers who sail under the flag of the regular navy and subject to naval discipline. Prussia in 1870, in the Franco-German war, organized such a navy, which was commanded by merchant seamen with temporary commissions, with the claim (in which England acquiesced) that it did not come within the meaning of the term privateer. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. A religious and philanthropic organization, similar to the Salvation Army, founded (1896) by Commander and Mrs. Ballington Booth. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. Tennessee; -- a nickname. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]