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To move to and fro; to rock. [Obs.]

Composed of dactyls and trochees so arranged as to produce a movement like that of ordinary speech.

Made slow and heavy in movement; water-logged. Beaconsfield.

To move heavily; to lounge or idle; to loll. [Law.] Charles Reade.

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.

To remove costiveness from; to facilitate or increase the alvine discharges of. Bacon.

To move with a lope, as a horse. [U.S.]

; -- applied commonly to the lower half of a tallboy from which the upper half has been removed. [U. S.]

to which they are applied. S. Sharp. Supples, lubricates, and keeps in play, The various movements of this nice machine. Young.

vessel sail nearer the wind. To luff round, or To luff alee, to make the extreme of this movement, for the purpose of throwing the ship's head into the wind.

To move slowly and heavily.

To move heavily, as if burdened.

minated; full of light; bright; as, many candles made the room luminous. Up the staircase moved a luminous space in the darkness. Longfellow.

Pertaining to tidal movements dependent on the moon. Bache. Lunitidal interval. See Retard, n.

A sudden roll of a ship to one side, as in heavy weather; hence, a swaying or staggering movement to one side, as that by a drunken man. Fig.: A sudden and capricious inclination of the mind.

To displace, or remove from its proper place, as a joint; to put out of joint; to dislocate.

ams, etc., with their supports and connecting framework, calculated to constitute a prime mover, or to receive force and motion from a prime mover or from another machine, and transmit, modify, and apply them to the production of some desired mechanical effect or work, as weaving by a loom, or the excitation of electri…

To attract as a magnet attracts, or like a magnet; to move; to influence. Fascinated, magnetized, as it were, by his character. Motley.

by expedients; as, they made shift to do without it. [Colloq.]. -- To make sternway, to move with the stern foremost; to go or drift backward. -- To make strange, to act in an unfriendly manner or as if surprised; to treat as strange; as, to make strange of a request or suggestion. -- To make suit to, to endeavor t…

Management; dexterous movement; specif., a military or naval evolution, movement, or change of position.