(a.) To relax; to loosen; to make less strict.
(a.) To release from anything obligatory or burdensome; to disengage; hence, to absolve; to remit.
(a.) To solve; to interpret.
(a.) To untie or unbind; to free from any fastening; to remove the shackles or fastenings of; to set free; to relieve.
(n.) A letting go; discharge.
(n.) Freedom from restraint.
(superl.) Containing or consisting of obscene or unchaste language; as, a loose epistle.
(superl.) Dissolute; unchaste; as, a loose man or woman.
(superl.) Free from constraint or obligation; not bound by duty, habit, etc. ; -- with from or of.
(superl.) Lax; not costive; having lax bowels.
(superl.) Not dense, close, compact, or crowded; as, a cloth of loose texture.
(superl.) Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate; as, a loose style, or way of reasoning.
(superl.) Not strict in matters of morality; not rigid according to some standard of right.
(superl.) Not tight or close; as, a loose garment.
(superl.) Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book.
(superl.) Unconnected; rambling.
(v. i.) To set sail.