vi to set sail.
2. loose ·noun freedom from restraint.
3. loose ·noun a letting go; discharge.
4. loose ·superl unconnected; rambling.
5. loose ·superl lax; not costive; having lax bowels.
6. loose ·superl not tight or close; as, a loose garment.
7. loose ·superl dissolute; unchaste; as, a loose man or woman.
8. loose ·adj to solve; to interpret.
9. loose ·superl not dense, close, compact, or crowded; as, a cloth of loose texture.
10. loose ·superl containing or consisting of obscene or unchaste language; as, a loose epistle.
11. loose ·adj to relax; to loosen; to make less strict.
12. loose ·superl not strict in matters of morality; not rigid according to some standard of right.
13. loose ·superl not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate; as, a loose style, or way of reasoning.
14. loose ·superl free from constraint or obligation; not bound by duty, habit, ·etc. ;
with from or of.
15. loose ·superl unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book.
xvi. loose ·adj to untie or unbind; to free from any fastening; to remove the shackles or fastenings of; to set free; to relieve.
xvii. loose ·adj to release from anything obligatory or burdensome; to disengage; hence, to absolve; to remit.