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Webster's English Dictionary

loose

a. [OE. loos, lous, laus, Icel. lauss; akin to OD. loos, D. los, AS. les false, deceitful, G. los, loose, Dan. & Sw. ls, Goth. laus, and E. lose. 127. See Lose, and cf. Leasing falsehood.]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. (Shak.)

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 ? (Addison.)

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. (Milton.)

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. (Whewel.)

6. Not strict in matters of morality; not rigid according to some standard of right. ()

The loose morality which he had learned. (Sir W. Scott.)

7. Unconnected; rambling. ()

Vario spends whole mornings in running over loose and unconnected pages. (I. Watts.)

8. Lax; not costive; having lax bowels. (Locke.)

9. Dissolute; unchaste; as, a loose man or woman. ()

Loose ladies in delight. (Spenser.)

10. Containing or consisting of obscene or unchaste language; as, a loose epistle. (Dryden.)

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. ()

n. 1. Freedom from restraint. (Prior.)

2. A letting go; discharge. (B. Jonson.)

To give a loose, to give freedom. ()

Vent all its griefs, and give a loose to sorrow. (Addison.)

v. n. [From Loose, a.]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 ? (Job. xxxviii. 31.)

Ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her; loose them, and bring them unto me. (Matt. xxi. 2.)

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. (1 Cor. vii. 27.)

Whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. (Matt. xvi. 19.)

3. To relax; to loosen; to make less strict. ()

The joints of his loins were loosed. (Dan. v. 6.)

4. To solve; to interpret. (Spenser.)

v. i. To set sail. (Acts xiii. 13.)