[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

loose \loose\ l=oos, a. compar. looser l=oos"~er;
   superl. loosest. oe. loos, lous, laus, icel. lauss; akin
   to od. loos, d. los, as. le'as false, deceitful, g. los,
   loose, dan.  sw. l"os, goth. laus, and e. lose. root127.
   see lose, and cf. leasing falsehood.
   1. unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed,
      or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book.
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            her hair, nor loose, nor tied in formal plat.
                                                  --shak.
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   2. free from constraint or obligation; not bound by duty,
      habit, etc.; -- with from or of.
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            now i stand
            loose of my vow; but who knows cato's thoughts ?
                                                  --addison.
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   3. not tight or close; as, a loose garment.
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   4. not dense, close, compact, or crowded; as, a cloth of
      loose texture.
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            with horse and chariots ranked in loose array.
                                                  --milton.
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   5. not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate; as, a loose
      style, or way of reasoning.
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            the comparison employed . . . must be considered
            rather as a loose analogy than as an exact
            scientific explanation.               --whewel.
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   6. not strict in matters of morality; not rigid according to
      some standard of right.
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            the loose morality which he had learned. --sir w.
                                                  scott.
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   7. unconnected; rambling.
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            vario spends whole mornings in running over loose
            and unconnected pages.                --i. watts.
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   8. lax; not costive; having lax bowels. --locke.
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   9. dissolute; unchaste; as, a loose man or woman.
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            loose ladies in delight.              --spenser.
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   10. containing or consisting of obscene or unchaste language;
       as, a loose epistle. --dryden.
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   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.
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see also:
looser loosest lose leasing at loose ends fast and loose 
fast to break loose break loose pulley fast and loose pulleys 
to let loose 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

loose \loose\, n.
   1. freedom from restraint. obs. --prior.
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   2. a letting go; discharge. --b. jonson.
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   to give a loose, to give freedom.
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            vent all its griefs, and give a loose to sorrow.
                                                  --addison.
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see also:
to give a loose 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

loose \loose\ l=oos, v. n. imp.  p. p. loosed
   l=oost; 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.
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            canst thou . . . loose the bands of orion ? --job.
                                                  xxxviii. 31.
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            ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her;
            loose them, and bring them unto me.   --matt. xxi.
                                                  2.
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   2. to release from anything obligatory or burdensome; to
      disengage; hence, to absolve; to remit.
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            art thou loosed from a wife ? seek not a wife. --1
                                                  cor. vii. 27.
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            whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed
            in heaven.                            --matt. xvi.
                                                  19.
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   3. to relax; to loosen; to make less strict.
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            the joints of his loins were loosed.  --dan. v. 6.
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   4. to solve; to interpret. obs. --spenser.
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see also:
loosed loosing loose 

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

loose \loose\, v. i.
   to set sail. obs. --acts xiii. 13.
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[5] : WordNet (r) 2.0

loose
     adj 1: not restrained or confined or attached; "a pocket full of
            loose bills"; "knocked the ball loose"; "got loose
            from his attacker"
     2: not compact or dense in structure or arrangement; "loose
        gravel" ant: compact
     3: of a ball in sport not in the possession or control of any
        player; "a loose ball"
     4: not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or
        constricting; "loose clothing"; "the large shoes were very
        loose" ant: tight
     5: not officially recognized or controlled; "an informal
        agreement"; "a loose organization of the local farmers"
        syn: informal
     6: not literal; "a loose interpretation of what she had been
        told"; "a free translation of the poem" syn: free, liberal
     7: emptying easily or excessively; "loose bowels" syn: lax
     8: not affixed; "the stamp came loose" syn: unaffixed ant:
         affixed
     9: not tense or taut; "the old man's skin hung loose and gray";
        "slack and wrinkled skin"; "slack sails"; "a slack rope"
        syn: slack
     10: of textures full of small openings or gaps; "an open
         texture"; "a loose weave" syn: open
     11: not fixed firmly or tightly; "the bolts became loose over
         time"; "a loose chair leg"; "loose bricks"
     12: lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility; "idle talk";
         "a loose tongue" syn: idle
     13: not carefully arranged in a package; "a box of loose nails"
     14: freely producing mucus; "a loose phlegmy cough"
     15: having escaped, especially from confinement; "a convict
         still at large"; "searching for two escaped prisoners";
         "dogs loose on the streets"; "criminals on the loose in
         the neighborhood" syn: at largep, at libertyp, escaped,
          on the loosep
     16: casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior; "her easy
         virtue"; "he was told to avoid loose or light women";
         "wanton behavior" syn: easy, light, promiscuous, sluttish,
          wanton
     17: not bound or fastened or gathered together; "loose pages";
         "loose papers"
     adv : without restraint; "cows in india are running loose" syn: free
     v 1: grant freedom to; free from confinement syn: free, liberate,
           release, unloose, unloosen ant: confine
     2: turn loose or free from restraint; "let loose mines"; "loose
        terrible plagues upon humanity" syn: unleash, let
        loose
     3: make loose or looser; "loosen the tension on a rope" syn: loosen
        ant: stiffen
     4: become loose or looser or less tight; "the noose loosened";
        "the rope relaxed" syn: loosen, relax ant: stiffen
see also:
compact tight informal free liberal lax 
unaffixed affixed slack open idle 
at largep at libertyp escaped on the loosep easy 
light promiscuous sluttish wanton liberate 
release unloose unloosen confine unleash 
let loose loosen stiffen relax 

[6] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

467 moby thesaurus words for "loose":
   bohemian, paphian, abandoned, abate, absonant, adrift, affable,
   afloat, afoot and lighthearted, aid, aimless, aleatoric, aleatory,
   alleviate, amorphous, approximate, approximative, at large,
   at liberty, aweigh, bagging, baggy, ballooning, barbarous, bate,
   beat-up, bedraggled, blobby, blowzy, blurred, blurry, break loose,
   broad, by the way, capricious, careless, cast off, cast-off,
   casual, chambering, chance, chancy, chaotic, chintzy, clear,
   clear the way, confused, contradictory, contrary to reason,
   cool off, cordial, corrupt, culpably negligent, dangling,
   debauched, degage, deliver, derelict, desultory, detach, detached,
   deviative, diffuse, digressive, dilapidated, discharge,
   disconnected, discontinuous, discursive, disengage, disengaged,
   disenthrall, disjoin, disjointed, disordered, disorganized,
   disperse, dispersed, dissolute, doff, drabbletailed, draggled,
   draggletailed, drooping, droopy, ease, ease off, ease up, easy,
   easygoing, emancipate, emancipated, emit, episodic, erroneous,
   escape, escaped, excursive, expedite, explain, extravagant,
   facilitate, fallacious, familiar, fast, faulty, fire, flabby,
   flaccid, flapping, flawed, fled, flee, flimsy, floating, floppy,
   flowing, flown, foggy, folksy, footloose, footloose and fancy-free,
   free, free and easy, free as air, freeborn, freed, frowzy,
   frumpish, frumpy, fugitive, fuzzy, general, give out with,
   go-as-you-please, go-go, gracious, grease, grease the ways,
   grease the wheels, grubby, hanging, hasten, haymish, hazy,
   help along, hit-or-miss, homely, homey, ill-defined, illogical,
   immoderate, immoral, impotent, imprecise, improper, in disarray,
   in disorder, in rags, in the clear, inaccurate, inadvertent,
   inattentive, inauthentic, inchoate, incoherent, inconclusive,
   incongruous, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsistent,
   inconstant, incontinent, incorrect, indecisive, indefinable,
   indefinite, indeterminable, indeterminate, indifferent, indistinct,
   indulgent, inexact, infelicitous, informal, intemperate, invalid,
   irrational, irregular, irrepressible, laissez-faire, lax, lenient,
   lessen, let down, let fly, let go, let up, lewd, liberate,
   liberated, libertine, licentious, light, limp, loose-moraled,
   loosen, lop, lop-eared, loppy, lubricate, lumpen, make clear,
   make way for, manumit, maundering, messy, mitigate, movable, mussy,
   natural, neglectful, neglecting, negligent, nodding, nonadhesive,
   noninterfering, nonrestrictive, nonscientific, nonspecific,
   not following, obscure, of easy virtue, of loose morals, off-guard,
   offhand, offhanded, oil, on the loose, open the way, open up,
   orderless, out of, out of control, out of hand, out of line,
   out of plumb, out of square, out of true, overindulgent,
   overly permissive, overpermissive, paralogical, pave the way,
   permissive, perverted, plain, poky, prepare the way,
   procrastinating, profligate, promiscuous, quicken, ragged, raggedy,
   rambling, rampant, random, reasonless, reckless, reinless, relax,
   relaxed, release, released, remiss, remit, remove, remove friction,
   rickety, riotous, rough, roving, rubbery, ruinous,
   run interference for, runaway, sagging, sagging in folds, saggy,
   scamping, scatter, scot-free, scraggly, seedy, self-annulling,
   self-contradictory, self-refuting, senseless, separate, set free,
   shabby, shadowed forth, shadowy, shaky, shapeless, shoddy, shoot,
   simple, simplify, sit back, skimping, slack, slack off, slack up,
   slacken, slake, slapdash, slatternly, slighting, slipshod, sloppy,
   slovenly, slurring, sluttish, smooth, smooth the way,
   soap the ways, sociable, soft, solecistic, sordid, speed,
   spread about, squalid, started, stochastic, streaming, swag,
   sweeping, tacky, take it easy, take off, tattered, unaffected,
   unanchored, unassuming, unattached, unauthentic, unbar, unbend,
   unbind, unblock, unbolt, unbound, unbrace, unbridle, unbridled,
   unbuckle, unbutton, uncage, unceremonious, unchain, unchained,
   unchaste, unchecked, uncircumspect, unclasp, unclear, unclog,
   uncoerced, uncommitted, uncompelled, unconfined, unconnected,
   unconstrained, uncontrolled, unconventional, uncurbed, undefined,
   undestined, undetermined, undo, undone, unengaged, unfactual,
   unfasten, unfastened, unfetter, unfettered, unfixed, unforced,
   ungag, unglue, ungoverned, ungrammatic, unguarded, unhandcuff,
   unhobble, uninhibited, uninvolved, unjam, unkempt, unlace, unlash,
   unlatch, unleash, unlock, unloose, unloosen, unmanacle, unmastered,
   unmeasured, unmoored, unmuzzle, unmuzzled, unneat, unofficial,
   unpen, unphilosophical, unpinion, unplain, unprecise, unreasonable,
   unreined, unrepressed, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestrictive,
   unrigorous, unruly, unscientific, unsecured, unshackle, unshackled,
   unsightly, unspecific, unspecified, unstick, unstrain, unstrap,
   unstring, unstuck, unstudied, unsubdued, unsuppressed, untether,
   untidy, untie, untied, untighten, untruss, unwary, unwatchful,
   unyoke, vague, veiled, vent, wandering, wanton, wayward, weak,
   weigh anchor, well out of, whorish, wild, without reason

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