Loose

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vi To set sail.

II. Loose ·noun Freedom from restraint.

III. Loose ·noun A letting go; discharge.

IV. Loose ·superl Unconnected; rambling.

V. Loose ·superl Lax; not costive; having lax bowels.

VI. Loose ·superl Not tight or close; as, a loose garment.

VII. Loose ·superl Dissolute; unchaste; as, a loose man or woman.

VIII. Loose ·adj To Solve; to Interpret.

IX. Loose ·superl Not dense, close, compact, or crowded; as, a cloth of loose texture.

X. Loose ·superl Containing or consisting of obscene or unchaste language; as, a loose epistle.

XI. Loose ·adj To Relax; to Loosen; to make less strict.

XII. Loose ·superl Not strict in matters of morality; not rigid according to some standard of right.

XIII. Loose ·superl Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate; as, a loose style, or way of reasoning.

XIV. Loose ·superl Free from constraint or obligation; not bound by duty, habit, ·etc. ;

— with from or of.

XV. Loose ·superl Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book.

XVI. Loose ·adj To untie or unbind; to free from any fastening; to remove the shackles or fastenings of; to set free; to Relieve.

XVII. Loose ·adj To release from anything obligatory or burdensome; to Disengage; hence, to absolve; to Remit.

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