Word Meanings - UNBUCKLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To loose the buckles of; to unfasten; as, to unbuckle a shoe. "Unbuckle anon thy purse." Chaucer.

Related words: (words related to UNBUCKLE)

• UNFASTEN
  To loose; to unfix; to unbind; to untie.
• PURSEFUL
  All that is, or can be, contained in a purse; enough to fill a purse.
• PURSERSHIP
  The office of purser. Totten.
• 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,
• 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
• 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
• LOOSENESS
  The state, condition, or quality, of being loose; as, the looseness of a cord; looseness of style; looseness of morals or of principles.
• PURSER
  A commissioned officer in the navy who had charge of the provisions, clothing, and public moneys on shipboard; -- now called paymaster. 2. A clerk on steam passenger vessels whose duty it is to keep the accounts of the vessels, such as the receipt
• PURSE
  1. A small bag or pouch, the opening of which is made to draw together closely, used to carry money in; by extension, any receptacle for money carried on the person; a wallet; a pocketbook; a portemonnaie. Chaucer. Who steals my purse steals trash.
• PURSET
  A purse or purse net. B. Jonson.
• LOOSELY
  In a loose manner.
• LOOSENER
  One who, or that which, loosens.
• PURSE-PROUD
  Affected with purse pride; puffed up with the possession of riches.
• UNBUCKLE
  To loose the buckles of; to unfasten; as, to unbuckle a shoe. "Unbuckle anon thy purse." Chaucer.
• UNPURSED
  1. Robbed of a purse, or of money. Pollock. 2. Taken from the purse; expended. Gower.
• UNLOOSEN
  To loosen; to unloose.
• CUTPURSE
  One who cuts purses for the sake of stealing them or their contents (an act common when men wore purses fastened by a string to their girdles); one who steals from the person; a pickpocket To have an open ear, a quick eye, and a nimble hand, is
• OUTLOOSE
  A loosing from; an escape; an outlet; an evasion. That "whereas" gives me an outloose. Selden.
• DISPURSE
  To disburse. Shak.
• SEA PURSE
  The horny egg case of a skate, and of certain sharks.
• UNLOOSE
  To make loose; to loosen; to set free. Shak.