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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Loose \Loose\, v. i. To set sail. [Obs.] --Acts xiii. 13. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Loose \Loose\, n. 1. Freedom from restraint. [Obs.] --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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Loose \Loose\, v. n. [imp. & p. p. {Loosed}; p. pr & vb n. {Loosing}.] [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. [Obs.] --Spenser. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Loose \Loose\, a. [Compar. {Looser}; superl. {Loosest}.] [OE. loos, lous, laus, Icel. lauss; akin to OD loos, D. los, AS le['a]s false, deceitful, G. los, loose, Dan. & Sw l["o]s, Goth. laus, and E. lose. ? 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: loose adj 1: not restrained or confined or attached; "a pocket full of loose bills"; "knocked the ball loose"; "got loose from his attacker" 2: not compact or dense in structure or arrangement; "loose gravel" [ant: {compact}] 3: (of a ball in sport) not in the possession or control of any player; "a loose ball" 4: not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or constricting; "loose clothing"; "the large shoes were very loose" [ant: {tight}] 5: not officially recognized or controlled; "an informal agreement"; "a loose organization of the local farmers" [syn: {informal}] 6: not literal; "a loose interpretation of what she had been told"; "a free translation of the poem" [syn: {free}, {liberal}] 7: emptying easily or excessively; "loose bowels" [syn: {lax}] 8: not affixed; "the stamp came loose" [syn: {unaffixed}] [ant: {affixed}] 9: not tense or taut; "the old man's skin hung loose and gray"; "slack and wrinkled skin"; "slack sails"; "a slack rope" [syn: {slack}] 10: (of textures) full of small openings or gaps; "an open texture"; "a loose weave" [syn: {open}] 11: not fixed firmly or tightly; "the bolts became loose over time"; "a loose chair leg"; "loose bricks" 12: lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility; "idle talk"; "a loose tongue" [syn: {idle}] 13: not carefully arranged in a package; "a box of loose nails" 14: freely producing mucus; "a loose phlegmy cough" 15: having escaped, especially from confinement; "a convict still at large"; "searching for two escaped prisoners"; "dogs loose on the streets"; "criminals on the loose in the neighborhood" [syn: {at large(p)}, {at liberty(p)}, {escaped}, {on the loose(p)}] 16: casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior; "her easy virtue"; "he was told to avoid loose (or light) women"; "wanton behavior" [syn: {easy}, {light}, {promiscuous}, {sluttish}, {wanton}] 17: not bound or fastened or gathered together; "loose pages"; "loose papers" adv : without restraint; "cows in India are running loose" [syn: {free}] v 1: grant freedom to free from confinement [syn: {free}, {liberate}, {release}, {unloose}] [ant: {confine}] 2: turn loose or free from restraint; "let loose mines"; "Loose terrible plagues upon humanity" [syn: {unleash}, {let loose}] 3: become less tight; "the rope relaxed" [syn: {relax}] 4: make loose or looser; "loosen the tension on a rope" [syn: {loosen}] [ant: {stiffen}]
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