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   Loose , a. [Compar. Looser ; superl. Loosest.] [OE. loos, lous, laus, Icel. lauss; akin to OD. loos, D. los, AS. leás false, deceitful, G. los, loose, Dan. & Sw. lös, Goth. laus, and E. lose. √127. See Lose, and cf. Leasing falsehood.]
   Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book.
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   Her hair, nor loose, nor tied in formal plat.
   Shak.
   
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   Free from constraint or obligation; not bound by duty, habit, etc.; -- with from or of.
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   Now I stand
   Loose of my vow; but who knows Cato's thoughts ?
   Addison.
   
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   Not tight or close; as, a loose garment.
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   Not dense, close, compact, or crowded; as, a cloth of loose texture.
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   With horse and chariots ranked in loose array.
   Milton.
   
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   Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate; as, a loose style, or way of reasoning.
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   The comparison employed . . . must be considered rather as a loose analogy than as an exact scientific explanation.
   Whewel.
   
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   Not strict in matters of morality; not rigid according to some standard of right.
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   The loose morality which he had learned.
   Sir W. Scott.
   
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   Unconnected; rambling.
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   Vario spends whole mornings in running over loose and unconnected pages.
   I. Watts.
   
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   Lax; not costive; having lax bowels.
   Locke.
   
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   Dissolute; unchaste; as, a loose man or woman.
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   Loose ladies in delight.
   Spenser.
   
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   Containing or consisting of obscene or unchaste language; as, a loose epistle.
   Dryden.
   
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   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.
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   Loose, n.
   Freedom from restraint. [Obs.]
   Prior.
   
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   A letting go; discharge.
   B. Jonson.
   
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   To give a loose, to give freedom.
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   Vent all its griefs, and give a loose to sorrow.
   Addison.
   
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   Loose , v. n. [imp. & p. p. Loosed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Loosing.] [From Loose, a.]
   To untie or unbind; to free from any fastening; to remove the shackles or fastenings of; to set free; to relieve.
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   Canst thou . . . loose the bands of Orion ?
   Job. xxxviii. 31.
   
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   Ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her; loose them, and bring them unto me.
   Matt. xxi. 2.
   
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   To release from anything obligatory or burdensome; to disengage; hence, to absolve; to remit.
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   Art thou loosed from a wife ? seek not a wife.
   1 Cor. vii. 27.
   
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   Whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
   Matt. xvi. 19.
   
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   To relax; to loosen; to make less strict.
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   The joints of his loins were loosed.
   Dan. v. 6.
   
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   To solve; to interpret. [Obs.]
   Spenser.
   
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   Loose, v. i. To set sail. [Obs.]
   Acts xiii. 13.
   
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