Loose word meaning and definition

[adjective] 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"
[adjective] not restrained or confined or attached; "a pocket full of loose bills"; "knocked the ball loose"; "got loose from his attacker"
[adv] without restraint; "cows in India are running loose"
[adjective] not affixed; "the stamp came loose"
[adjective] not bound or fastened or gathered together; "loose pages"; "loose papers"
[adjective] casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior; "her easy virtue"; "he was told to avoid loose (or light) women"; "wanton behavior"
[adjective] not compact or dense in structure or arrangement; "loose gravel"
[adjective] (of a ball in sport) not in the possession or control of any player; "a loose ball"
[adjective] emptying easily or excessively; "loose bowels"
[adjective] not literal; "a loose interpretation of what she had been told"; "a free translation of the poem"
[adjective] freely producing mucus; "a loose phlegmy cough"
[adjective] not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or constricting; "loose clothing"; "the large shoes were very loose"
[adjective] not officially recognized or controlled; "an informal agreement"; "a loose organization of the local farmers"
[adjective] not carefully arranged in a package; "a box of loose nails"
[adjective] lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility; "idle talk"; "a loose tongue"
[adjective] not fixed firmly or tightly; "the bolts became loose over time"; "a loose chair leg"; "loose bricks"
[adjective] (of textures) full of small openings or gaps; "an open texture"; "a loose weave"
[adjective] not tense or taut; "the old man's skin hung loose and gray"; "slack and wrinkled skin"; "slack sails"; "a slack rope"
[verb] become loose or looser or less tight; "The noose loosened"; "the rope relaxed"
[verb] make loose or looser; "loosen the tension on a rope"
[verb] turn loose or free from restraint; "let loose mines"; "Loose terrible plagues upon humanity"
[verb] grant freedom to; free from confinement

\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.
\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.
\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.
\Loose\, v. i. To set sail. [Obs.] --Acts xiii. 13.

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