Loose (n.) A letting go; discharge.
Loosed (imp. & p. p.) of Loose
Loosing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Loose
Loose (a.) To untie or unbind; to free from any fastening; to remove the shackles or fastenings of; to set free; to relieve.
Loose (a.) To release from anything obligatory or burdensome; to disengage; hence, to absolve; to remit.
Loose (a.) To relax; to loosen; to make less strict.
Loose (a.) To solve; to interpret.
Loose (v. i.) To set sail.
Loosely (adv.) In a loose manner.
Loosened (imp. & p. p.) of Loosen
Loosening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Loosen
Loosen (v. t.) To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a rock in the earth.
Loosen (v. t.) To free from restraint; to set at liberty..
Loosen (v. t.) To remove costiveness from; to facilitate or increase the alvine discharges of.
Loosen (v. i.) To become loose; to become less tight, firm, or compact.
Loosener (n.) One who, or that which, loosens.
Looseness (n.) The state, condition, or quality, of being loose; as, the looseness of a cord; looseness of style; looseness of morals or of principles.
Loosestrife (n.) The name of several species of plants of the genus Lysimachia, having small star-shaped flowers, usually of a yellow color.
Loosestrife (n.) Any species of the genus Lythrum, having purple, or, in some species, crimson flowers.
Loosish (a.) Somewhat loose.
Loot (n.) The act of plundering.
Loot (n.) Plunder; booty; especially, the boot taken in a conquered or sacked city.
Looted (imp. & p. p.) of Loot
Looting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Loot
Loot (v. t. & i.) To plunder; to carry off as plunder or a prize lawfully obtained by war.
Looter (n.) A plunderer.
Loover (n.) See Louver.
Lop (n.) A flea.
Lopped (imp. & p. p.) of Lop
Lopping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lop
Lop (v. t.) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything; to sho/ -- by cutting off the extremities; to cut off, or remove as superfluous parts; as, to lop a tree or its branches.
Lop (v. t.) To cut partly off and bend down; as, to lop bushes in a hedge.
Lop (n.) That which is lopped from anything, as branches from a tree.
Lop (v. i.) To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
Lop (v. t.) To let hang down; as, to lop the head.
Lop (a.) Hanging down; as, lop ears; -- used also in compound adjectives; as, lopeared; lopsided.
Lope (imp.) of Leap.
Loped (imp. & p. p.) of Lope
Loping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lope
Lope (v. i.) To leap; to dance.
Lope (v. i.) To move with a lope, as a horse.
Lope (n.) A leap; a long step.
Lope (n.) An easy gait, consisting of long running strides or leaps.
Lopeared (a.) Having ears which lop or hang down.
Lopeman (n.) Leaper; ropedancer.
Loper (n.) One who, or that which, lopes; esp., a horse that lopes.
Loper (n.) A swivel at one end of a ropewalk, used in laying the strands.
Lophine (n.) A nitrogenous organic base obtained by the oxidation of amarine, and regarded as a derivative of benzoic aldehyde. It is obtained in long white crystalline tufts, -- whence its name.
Lophiomys (n.) A very singular rodent (Lophiomys Imhausi) of Northeastern Africa. It is the only known representative of a special family (Lophiomyidae), remarkable for the structure of the skull. It has handlike feet, and the hair is peculiar in structure and arrangement.
Lophobranch (a.) Of or pertaining to the Lophobranchii.
Lophobranch (n.) One of the Lophobranchii.
Lophobranchiate (a.) Of or pertaining to the Lophobranchii.
Lophobranchii (n. pl.) An order of teleostean fishes, having the gills arranged in tufts on the branchial arches, as the Hippocampus and pipefishes.
Lophophore (n.) A disk which surrounds the mouth and bears the tentacles of the Bryozoa. See Phylactolemata.
Lophopoda (n. pl.) Same as Phylactolemata.
Lophostea (pl. ) of Lophosteon
Lophosteons (pl. ) of Lophosteon
Lophosteon (n.) The central keel-bearing part of the sternum in birds.
Loppard (n.) A tree, the top of which has been lopped off.
Lopper (n.) One who lops or cuts off.
Loppered (imp. & p. p.) of Lopper
Loppering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lopper
Lopper (v. i.) To turn sour and coagulate from too long standing, as milk.
Lopping (n.) A cutting off, as of branches; that which is cut off; leavings.
Loppy (a.) Somewhat lop; inclined to lop.
Lopseed (n.) A perennial herb (Phryma Leptostachya), having slender seedlike fruits.
Lopsided (a.) Leaning to one side because of some defect of structure; as, a lopsided ship.
Lopsided (a.) Unbalanced; poorly proportioned; full of idiosyncrasies.
Loquacious (a.) Given to continual talking; talkative; garrulous.
Loquacious (a.) Speaking; expressive.
Loquacious (a.) Apt to blab and disclose secrets.
Loquaciously (adv.) In a loquacious manner.
Loquaciousness (n.) Loquacity.
Loquacity (n.) The habit or practice of talking continually or excessively; inclination to talk too much; talkativeness; garrulity.
Loquat (n.) The fruit of the Japanese medlar (Photinia Japonica). It is as large as a small plum, but grows in clusters, and contains four or five large seeds. Also, the tree itself.
Loral (n.) Of or pertaining to the lores.
Lorate (a.) Having the form of a thong or strap; ligulate.
Lorcha (n.) A kind of light vessel used on the coast of China, having the hull built on a European model, and the rigging like that of a Chinese junk.
Lord (n.) A hump-backed person; -- so called sportively.
Lord (n.) One who has power and authority; a master; a ruler; a governor; a prince; a proprietor, as of a manor.
Lord (n.) A titled nobleman., whether a peer of the realm or not; a bishop, as a member of the House of Lords; by courtesy; the son of a duke or marquis, or the eldest son of an earl; in a restricted sense, a boron, as opposed to noblemen of higher rank.
Lord (n.) A title bestowed on the persons above named; and also, for honor, on certain official persons; as, lord advocate, lord chamberlain, lord chancellor, lord chief justice, etc.
Lord (n.) A husband.
Lord (n.) One of whom a fee or estate is held; the male owner of feudal land; as, the lord of the soil; the lord of the manor.
Lord (n.) The Supreme Being; Jehovah.
Lord (n.) The Savior; Jesus Christ.
Lord (v. t.) To invest with the dignity, power, and privileges of a lord.
Lord (v. t.) To rule or preside over as a lord.
Lorded (imp. & p. p.) of Lord
Lording (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lord
Lord (v. i.) To play the lord; to domineer; to rule with arbitrary or despotic sway; -- sometimes with over; and sometimes with it in the manner of a transitive verb.
Lording (n.) The son of a lord; a person of noble lineage.
Lording (n.) A little lord; a lordling; a lord, in contempt or ridicule.
Lordkin (n.) A little lord.
Lordlike (a.) Befitting or like a lord; lordly.
Lordlike (a.) Haughty; proud; insolent; arrogant.
Lordliness (n.) The state or quality of being lordly.
Lordling (n.) A little or insignificant lord.
Lordly (superl.) Suitable for a lord; of or pertaining to a lord; resembling a lord; hence, grand; noble; dignified; honorable.
Lordly (superl.) Proud; haughty; imperious; insolent.