Word Meanings - UNSHACKLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To loose from shackles or bonds; to set free from restraint; to unfetter. Addison.

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• BONDSWOMAN
  See BONDWOMAN
• BONDSTONE
  A stone running through a wall from one face to another, to bind it together; a binding stone.
• BONDSMAN
  A surety; one who is bound, or who gives security, for another. (more info) 1. A slave; a villain; a serf; a bondman. Carnal, greedy people, without such a precept, would have no mercy upon their poor bondsmen. Derham.
• 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
• UNFETTER
  To loose from fetters or from restraint; to unchain; to unshackle; to liberate; as, to unfetter the mind.
• 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.
• RESTRAINT
  1. The act or process of restraining, or of holding back or hindering from motion or action, in any manner; hindrance of the will, or of any action, physical or mental. No man was altogether above the restrains of law, and no man altogether below
• ADDISON'S DISEASE
  A morbid condition causing a peculiar brownish discoloration of the skin, and thought, at one time, to be due to disease of the suprarenal capsules (two flat triangular bodies covering the upper part of the kidneys), but now known not
• LOOSELY
  In a loose manner.
• LOOSENER
  One who, or that which, loosens.
• BONDSLAVE
  A person in a state of slavery; one whose person and liberty are subjected to the authority of a master.
• UNLOOSEN
  To loosen; to unloose.
• UNRESTRAINT
  Freedom from restraint; freedom; liberty; license.
• OUTLOOSE
  A loosing from; an escape; an outlet; an evasion. That "whereas" gives me an outloose. Selden.
• UNLOOSE
  To make loose; to loosen; to set free. Shak.
• SELF-RESTRAINT
  Restraint over one's self; self-control; self-command.