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Loose   /lus/   Listen
adjective
Loose  adj.  (compar. looser; superl. loosest)  
1.
Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book. "Her hair, nor loose, nor tied in formal plat."
2.
Free from constraint or obligation; not bound by duty, habit, etc.; with from or of. "Now I stand Loose of my vow; but who knows Cato's thoughts?"
3.
Not tight or close; as, a loose garment.
4.
Not dense, close, compact, or crowded; as, a cloth of loose texture. "With horse and chariots ranked in loose array."
5.
Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate; as, a loose style, or way of reasoning. "The comparison employed... must be considered rather as a loose analogy than as an exact scientific explanation."
6.
Not strict in matters of morality; not rigid according to some standard of right. "The loose morality which he had learned."
7.
Unconnected; rambling. "Vario spends whole mornings in running over loose and unconnected pages."
8.
Lax; not costive; having lax bowels.
9.
Dissolute; unchaste; as, a loose man or woman. "Loose ladies in delight."
10.
Containing or consisting of obscene or unchaste language; as, a loose epistle.
At loose ends, not in order; in confusion; carelessly managed.
Fast and loose. See under Fast.
To break loose. See under Break.
Loose pulley. (Mach.) See Fast and loose pulleys, under Fast.
To let loose, to free from restraint or confinement; to set at liberty.


noun
Loose  n.  
1.
Freedom from restraint. (Obs.)
2.
A letting go; discharge.
To give a loose, to give freedom. "Vent all its griefs, and give a loose to sorrow."


verb
Loose  v. i.  To set sail. (Obs.)


Loose  v.  (past & past part. loosed; pres. part. loosing)  
1.
To untie or unbind; to free from any fastening; to remove the shackles or fastenings of; to set free; to relieve. "Canst thou... loose the bands of Orion?" "Ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her; loose them, and bring them unto me."
2.
To release from anything obligatory or burdensome; to disengage; hence, to absolve; to remit. "Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife." "Whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven."
3.
To relax; to loosen; to make less strict. "The joints of his loins were loosed."
4.
To solve; to interpret. (Obs.)





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... down, as everything merely animal must forever do. Such are the actions of the two races, when left to themselves, as all their works attest. Subdue the negro as we do the other animals, and like them, teach them all we can; then turn them loose, free them entirely from the restraints and control of the white race, and, just like all other animals or beasts so treated, back to his native nature and wildness and barbarism and the worship of daemons, he will go. Not so with Adam's ...
— The Negro: what is His Ethnological Status? 2nd Ed. • Buckner H. 'Ariel' Payne
... unsuccessful diplomatic manoeuvres. For three months the Government laboured to bring about through a European council some solution that should both save something for Denmark and save its own prestige. Repeatedly Palmerston, in the many parliamentary debates on Denmark, broke loose from his Cabinet colleagues and indulged in threats which could not fail to give an excellent handle to opponents when once it became clear that the Ministry had no intention of coming in arms to the defence of the ...
— Great Britain and the American Civil War • Ephraim Douglass Adams
... was a certain amount of moisture below the surface. The tents were soon erected by the side of those of the first party, and when the fires were lighted and the camels unloaded, taken to the water and then turned loose to browse among the trees, the place ...
— The Dash for Khartoum - A Tale of Nile Expedition • George Alfred Henty
... contributions, forage, and provisions for the use of their invaders; and what was still more terrifying to them, the partisan Fischer, whose cruelties the last war they still remembered with horror, was again let loose upon them by the inhumanity of the empress-queen. Wesel was immediately occupied by the French; Emmerick and Maseyk soon shared the same fate; and the city of Gueldres was besieged, the Prussians seeming resolved to defend this last place; to which end they opened ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. - From William and Mary to George II. • Tobias Smollett
... performed was frankly called a bath-rub in a bathroom; but now creme de la creme know only 'lavatory.' Just so, in the march of culture and reform, such vulgarly nude phrases as 'deceitful' have been taken forcibly to a popular tailor, and when they are let loose on society again you never dream that you meet anything but becomingly dressed 'policy;' and fashionable 'diplomacy' has hunted 'insincerity'—that other horrid remnant of old-fogyism—as far away from civilization as are the lava beds of the Modocs. ...
— Infelice • Augusta Jane Evans Wilson


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