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To loosen the reins of; to remove restraint from. Addison.

To take out, or loose, the rivets of; as, to unrivet boiler plates.

To draw the screws from; to loose from screws; to loosen or withdraw (anything, as a screw) by turning it.

To move or loosen from a settled position or state; to unfix; to displace; to disorder; to confuse.

To loose from shackles or bonds; to set free from restraint; to unfetter. Addison.

To loose or take from a socket.

To deprive of a stock; to remove the stock from; to loose from that which fixes, or holds fast.

atified; -- applied to massive rocks, as granite, porphyry, etc., and also to deposits of loose material, as the glacial till, which occur in masses without layers or strata.

To loosen the string or strings of; as, to unstring a harp or a bow.

To loose from tangles or intricacy; to disentangle; to resolve; as, to untangle thread. Untangle but this cruel chain. Prior.

To deprive of ligaments; to loose the ligaments of. He with his bare wand can unthread thy joints. Milton.

To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of; as, to untie a knot. Sacharissa's captive fain Would untie his iron chain. Waller. Her snakes untied, sulphurous waters drink. Pope.

To make less tight or tense; to loosen.

To loose from a truss, or as from a truss; to untie or unfasten; to let out; to undress. [R.] Dryden.

To wind off; to loose or separate, as what or convolved; to untwist; to untwine; as, to unwind thread; to unwind a ball of yarn.

To loose or free from a yoke. "Like youthful steers unyoked, they take their courses." Shak.

Freed or loosed from a yoke.

In a loose and popular sense, any visible diffused substance floating in the atmosphere and impairing its transparency, as smoke, fog, etc. The vapour which that fro the earth glood [glided]. Chaucer. Fire and hail; snow and vapors; stormy wind fulfilling his word. Ps. cxlviii. 8.

batic feats, dramatic sketches, exhibitions of trained animals, or any specialties. Often loosely called vaudeville show.

An attachment, usually pneumatic, in a molding machine to shake the pattern loose.