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An instrument, as a bodkin, for forming a loop in yarn, a cord, etc.

A small opening, as in the walls of fortification, or in the bulkhead of a ship, through which small arms or other weapons may be discharged at an enemy.

Provided with loopholes.

Deceitful; cunning; sly. [Scot.]

of Loop. Looping snail (Zoöl.), any species of land snail of the genus Truncatella; -- so called because it creeps like the measuring worms.

A small narrow opening or window in a tower or fortified wall; a loophole.

A dull, stupid fellow; a drone. [Obs.] Spenser.

Praise; fame; reputation. [Obs.] Spenser. Good conscience and good loos. Chaucer.

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.

In a loose manner.

To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a rock in the earth. After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening of the earth. Bacon.

One who, or that which, loosens.

The state, condition, or quality, of being loose; as, the looseness of a cord; looseness of style; looseness of morals or of principles.

The name of several species of plants of the genus Lysimachia, having small star-shaped flowers, usually of a yellow color.

Somewhat loose.

To plunder; to carry off as plunder or a prize lawfully obtained by war. Looting parties . . . ransacking the houses. L.O

A plunderer.

See Louver.

In or into bloom; in a blooming state. Masson.

To incite dogs by a call; to halloo. [Obs.]