Word Meanings - OUTLOOSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A loosing from; an escape; an outlet; an evasion. That "whereas" gives me an outloose. Selden.

Related words: (words related to OUTLOOSE)

• GIVES
  Fetters.
• LOOS
  Praise; fame; reputation. Spenser. Good conscience and good loos. Chaucer.
• ESCAPE
  1. To flee, and become secure from danger; -- often followed by from or out of. Haste, for thy life escape, nor look behindKeble. 2. To get clear from danger or evil of any form; to be passed without harm. Such heretics . . . would have
• WHEREAS
  At which place; where. Chaucer. At last they came whereas that lady bode. Spenser.
• LOOSEN
  Etym: 1. 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. After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening
• LOOSISH
  Somewhat loose.
• LOOSESTRIFE
  The name of several species of plants of the genus Lysimachia, having small star-shaped flowers, usually of a yellow color. Any species of the genus Lythrum, having purple, or, in some species, crimson flowers. Gray. False loosestrife, a plant
• OUTLET
  The place or opening by which anything is let out; a passage out; an exit; a vent. Receiving all, and having no outlet. Fuller.
• ESCAPEMENT
  1. The act of escaping; escape. 2. Way of escape; vent. An escapement for youthful high spirits. G. Eliot. 3. The contrivance in a timepiece which connects the train of wheel work with the pendulum or balance, giving to the latter the impulse by
• OUTLOOSE
  A loosing from; an escape; an outlet; an evasion. That "whereas" gives me an outloose. Selden.
• EVASION
  The act of eluding or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding. Thou . . . by evasions thy crime uncoverest more. Milton. Syn. -- Shift; subterfuge; shuffling; prevarication;
• LOOSENESS
  The state, condition, or quality, of being loose; as, the looseness of a cord; looseness of style; looseness of morals or of principles.
• LOOSE
  laus, Icel. lauss; akin to OD. loos, D. los, AS. leás false, deceitful, G. los, loose, Dan. & Sw. lös, Goth. laus, and E. lose. 1. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book. Her hair,
• LOOSELY
  In a loose manner.
• LOOSENER
  One who, or that which, loosens.
• ESCAPER
  One who escapes.
• SELDEN
  Seldom. Chaucer.
• TROUTLET
  A little trout; a troutling. Hood.
• UNLOOSEN
  To loosen; to unloose.
• ANCHOR ESCAPEMENT
  The common recoil escapement. A variety of the lever escapement with a wide impulse pin.
• UNLOOSE
  To make loose; to loosen; to set free. Shak.