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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.

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.

Applied loosely to compounds having nitrogen variously combined, as in cyanides, nitrates, etc.

wheel, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, resulting from looseness in fitting or from wear; also, the jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.