What does "large" mean?

Additional senses

1. 2.Full in statement; diffuse; full; profuse. I might be very large upon the importance and advantages of education. Felton.
2. 3.Having more than usual power or capacity; having broad sympathies and generous impulses; comprehensive; -- said of the mind and heart.
3. 4.Free; unembarrassed. [Obs.] Of burdens all he set the Paynims large. Fairfax.
4. 5.Unrestrained by decorum; -- said of language. [Obs.] "Some large jests he will make." Shak.
5. 6.Prodigal in expending; lavish. [Obs.] Chaucer.
6. 7.(Naut.) Crossing the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction; -- said of the wind when it is abeam, or between the beam and the quarter. At large. (a) Without restraint or confinement; as, to go at large; to be left at large. (b) Diffusely; fully; in the full extent; as, to discourse on a subject at large. -- Common at large. See under Common, n. -- Electors at large, Representative at large, electors, or a representative, as in Congress, chosen to represent the whole of a State, in distinction from those chosen to represent particular districts in a State. [U. S.] -- To give, go, run, or sail large (Naut.), to have the wind crossing the direction of a vessel's course in such a way that the sails feel its full force, and the vessel gains its highest speed. See Large, a., 8.
7. 8.Freely; licentiously. [Obs.] Chaucer.
8. 9.A musical note, formerly in use, equal to two longs, four breves, or eight semibreves.