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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.

A loosing from; an escape; an outlet; an evasion. [Obs.] That "whereas" gives me an outloose. Selden.

To make loose; to loosen; to set free. Shak.

To loosen; to unloose.

Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch.

Down. [Archaic & Poetic] Her hair adown her shoulders loosely lay displayed. Prior.

cohol); the spirituous or intoxicating element of fermented or distilled liquors, or more loosely a liquid containing it in considerable quantity. It is extracted by simple distillation from various vegetable juices and infusions of a saccharine nature, which have undergone vinous fermentation.

(Physalis alkekengi) and its fruit, which is a well flavored berry, the size of a cherry, loosely inclosed in a enlarged leafy calyx; -- also called winter cherry, ground cherry, and strawberry tomato. D. C. Eaton.

To any extent; in any degree; at all. You are not to go loose any longer. Shak. Before you go any farther. Steele.

Covered with, or composed of, soft, loose hairs or fibers, so as to resemble a cobweb; cobwebby.

reolæ. reolar tissue (Anat.), a form of fibrous connective tissue in which the fibers are loosely arranged with numerous spaces, or areolæ, between them.

A exterior covering, forming a false coat or appendage to a seed, as the loose, transparent bag inclosing the seed or the white water lily. The mace of the nutmeg is also an aril. Gray.

-- from the method of mourning in Eastern lands. -- Volcanic ashes, or Volcanic ash, the loose, earthy matter, or small fragments of stone or lava, ejected by volcanoes.