loos.

To untie or unbind; to free from any fastening. Canst thou loose the bands of Orion? Job 38:31. Ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her; loose them, and bring them to me. Matthew 21:2.

To relax. The joints of his loins were loosed. Danie! 5:6.

To release from imprisonment; to liberate; to set at liberty. The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed. Isaiah 51:14.

To free from obligation. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife. 7 Corinthians 7:27.

To free from any thing that binds or shackles; as a man loosed from lust and pelf.

To relieve; to free from any thing burdensome or afflictive. Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity. Luke 13:72.

To disengage; to detach; as, to loose one’s hold.

To put off. Loose thy shoe from off thy foot. Joshua 5:15.

To open. Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof? Revelation 5:2.

To remit; to absolve. Whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth, shall be loosed in heaven. Matthew 16:19.

To set sail; to leave a port or harbor. Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga, in Pamphylia. Acts 13:73.

Unbound; untied; unsewed; not fastened or confined; as the loose sheets of a book.

Not tight or close; as a loose garment.

Not crowded; not close or compact. With horse and chariots rank’d in loose array.

Not dense, close or compact; as a cloth or fossil of loose texture.

Not close; not concise; lax; as a loose and diffuse style.

Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate; as a loose way of reasoning.

Not strict or rigid; as a loose observance of rites.

Unconnected; rambling; as a loose indigested play. Vario spends whole mornings in running over loose and unconnected pages.