loose

LOOSE, verb transitive loos. [Gr.; Heb.] 1. To untie or unbind; to free from any fastening. Canst thou loose the bands of Orion? Job 38:31. Ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her; loose them, and bring them to me. Matthew 21:2. 2. To relax. The joints of his loins were loosed. Daniel 5:6. 3. To release from imprisonment; to liberate; to set at liberty. The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed. Isaiah 51:14. 4. To free from obligation. Art thou loosed from a wife? see not a wife. 1 Corinthians 7:27. 5. To free from any thing that binds or shackles; as a man loosed from lust and pelf. 6. To relieve; to free from any thing burdensome or afflictive. Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity. Acts 13:13. 7. To disengage; to detach; as, to loose one's hold. 8. To put off. LOOSE thy shoe from off thy foot. Joshua 5:15. 9. To open. Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof? Revelation 5:2. 10. To remit; to absolve. Whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth, shall be loosed in heaven. Matthew 16:19. LOOSE, verb intransitive To set sail; to leave a port or harbor. Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga, in Pamphylia. Acts 13:13. LOOSE, adjective 1. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not fastened or confined; as the loose sheets of a book. 2. Not tight or close; as a loose garment. 3. Not crowded; not close or compact. With horse and chariots rank'd in loose array. 4. Not dense, close or compact; as a cloth or fossil of loose texture. 5. Not close; not concise; lax; as a loose and diffuse style. 6. Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate; as a loose way of reasoning. 7. Not strict or rigid; as a loose observance of rites. 8. Unconnected; rambling; as a loose indigested play. Vario spends whole mornings in running over loose and unconnected pages. 9. Of lax bowels. 10. Unengaged; not attached or enslaved. Their prevailing principle is, to sit as loose from pleasures, and be as moderate in the use of them as they can. 11. Disengaged; free from obligation; with from or of. Now I stand loose of my vow; but who knows Cato's thought? [Little used.] 12. Wanton; unrestrained in behavior; dissolute; unchaste; as a loose man or woman. 13. Containing unchaste language; as a loose epistle. To break loose to escape from confinement; to gain liberty by violence. To let loose to free from restraint or confinement; to set at liberty. LOOSE, noun Freedom from restraint; liberty. Come, give thy soul a loose Vent all its griefs, and give a loose to sorrow. We use this word only in the phrase, give a loose The following use of it, 'he runs with an unbounded loose ' is obsolete.