Word Meanings - UNLATCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To open or loose by lifting the latch; as, to unlatch a door.

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• LIFT
  The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.
• UNLATCH
  To open or loose by lifting the latch; as, to unlatch a door.
• LATCHET
  The string that fastens a shoe; a shoestring.
• 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
• LATCHING
  A loop or eye formed on the head rope of a bonnet, by which it is attached to the foot of a sail; -- called also latch and lasket.
• LOOSENESS
  The state, condition, or quality, of being loose; as, the looseness of a cord; looseness of style; looseness of morals or of principles.
• LATCH
  To smear; to anoint. Shak.
• LIFTING
  Used in, or for, or by, lifting. Lifting bridge, a lift bridge. -- Lifting jack. See 2d Jack, 5. -- Lifting machine. See Health lift, under Health. -- Lifting pump. A kind of pump having a bucket, or valved piston, instead of a solid piston,
• LOOSELY
  In a loose manner.
• LOOSENER
  One who, or that which, loosens.
• LATCHSTRING
  A string for raising the latch of a door by a person outside. It is fastened to the latch and passed through a hole above it in the door. To find the latchstring out, to meet with hospitality; to be welcome.
• LATCHKEY
  A key used to raise, or throw back, the latch of a door, esp. a night latch.
• LIFTER
  A tool for lifting loose sand from the mold; also, a contrivance attached to a cope, to hold the sand together when the cope is lifted. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, lifts.
• LIFTABLE
  Such as can be lifted.
• THROATLATCH
  A strap of a bridle, halter, or the like, passing under a horse's throat.
• UNLOOSEN
  To loosen; to unloose.
• SLATCH
  The period of a transitory breeze. An interval of fair weather. The loose or slack part of a rope; slack.
• SHOPLIFTER
  One who steals anything in a shop, or takes goods privately from a shop; one who, under pretense of buying goods, takes occasion to steal.
• DRAWLATCH
  A housebreaker or thief. Old Play .
• OUTLOOSE
  A loosing from; an escape; an outlet; an evasion. That "whereas" gives me an outloose. Selden.
• FORELIFT
  To lift up in front.
• CLIFTED
  Broken; fissured. Climb the Andeclifted side. Grainger.
• SHOPLIFTING
  Larceny committed in a shop; the stealing of anything from a shop.