5. Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate; as, a loose style, or way of reasoning.
The comparison employed . . . must be considered rather as a loose analogy than as an exact scientific
explanation.
Whewel. 6. Not strict in matters of morality; not rigid according to some standard of right.
The loose morality which he had learned.
Sir W. Scott. 7. Unconnected; rambling.
Vario spends whole mornings in running over loose and unconnected pages.
I. Watts. 8. Lax; not costive; having lax bowels. Locke.
9. Dissolute; unchaste; as, a loose man or woman.
Loose ladies in delight.
Spenser. 10. Containing or consisting of obscene or unchaste language; as, a loose epistle. Dryden.
At loose ends, not in order; in confusion; carelessly managed. — Fast and loose. See under Fast.
— To break loose. See under Break. — Loose pulley. (Mach.) See Fast and loose pulleys,
under Fast. — To let loose, to free from restraint or confinement; to set at liberty.
Loose
(Loose), n.
1. Freedom from restraint. [Obs.] Prior.
2. A letting go; discharge. B. Jonson.
To give a loose, to give freedom.
Vent all its griefs, and give a loose to sorrow.
Addison. Loose
(Loose) v. n. [imp. & p. p. Loosed (l&oomacst); p. pr. & vb. n. Loosing.] [From Loose, a.]
1. 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. 2. To release from anything obligatory or burdensome; to disengage; hence, to absolve; to remit.
Art thou loosed from a wife ? seek not a wife.
1 Cor. vii. 27.
Whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
Matt. xvi. 19. 3. To relax; to loosen; to make less strict.
The joints of his loins were loosed.
Dan. v. 6. 4. To solve; to interpret. [Obs.] Spenser.
Loose
(Loose), v. i. To set sail. [Obs.] Acts xiii. 13.
