loose(1) (iou) and spiodea (medicine)

loose(1) (iou)

loose adjective & adverb. [lu:s] ME.
[Old Norse lauss = Old Frisian las, Old Saxon, Old High German los (Dutch, German los), Gothic laus, from Germanic, from base also of LEASE adjective, -LESS.]
A. adjective.
a. Free or released from bonds, fetters, or physical restraint; not confined or tethered; (of a horse etc.) running free. ME.
A. Price There was a mass murderer loose. J. McPhee Cook's loose ones [dogs], running amok, could be counted on to..drive the tied ones berserk.
b. Loosely clothed; naked. LME-E18.
c. Not bound together; not forming a bundle or package; not tied up or secured; having an end or ends hanging free; (of money, cash, etc.) in coins as opp. to notes, in relatively small denominations. L15.
G. Greene He drew a loose match from his pocket. I. McEwan She tucked some loose strands of hair behind her ear.
d. Free for disposal or acquisition; unattached, unappropriated, unoccupied. Now esp. (of a Football or Hockey ball) not in any player's possession. L15.
e. Freed from an engagement, obligation, etc. Long obsolete exc. dial. M16.
f. Of ideas, speech, etc.: unconnected, rambling, stray, random. Now rare. L17.
g. Of an inanimate thing: not fastened or attached to that to which it belongs as a part or appendage, or with which it has previously been connected; detached. E18.
come loose, get loose, etc.
h. Not joined to anything else. E19.
i. Grammar. Of a modifying clause or phrase: dispensable without loss of semantic or grammatical completeness. M20.
a. Not rigidly or securely attached or fixed in place; ready to move in or come apart from the body to which it is joined or on which it rests. ME.
R. Dahl He was up on the roof..replacing some loose tiles. B. Moore Loose chippings of stone rattled against the..undercarriage.
b. Of the eyes: not fixed, roving. E17-M19.
c. Of a cough: producing phlegm or sputum with little difficulty. M19.
Not tightly drawn or stretched; slack, relaxed, not tense; limber; slang uninhibited. ME.
Milton What time the labour'd Oxe In his loose traces from the furrow came. P. Roth Standing there as loose and as easy, as happy as I will ever be. Running The runners..will need to keep loose and warm. J. Wilcox The loose flesh on the old woman's throat quivered.
b. Of clothes: not clinging close to the figure or body; loosely fitting. LME.
R. Chandler The violet scarf was loose enough to show that he wore no tie. A. Brookner A loose sweater and a long jersey skirt.
c. Of a person's build: ungainly, looking unsuited for brisk movement. M19.
Dickens He was a strong, loose, round-shouldered, shuffling shaggy fellow.
a. Lacking in retentiveness or power of restraint; (of the tongue) likely to speak indiscreetly; lax in principle, conduct, or speech, esp. promiscuous, dissolute, immoral. ME.
Dryden The scandal I have given by my loose writings. Carlyle A rash young fool; carries a loose tongue. International Herald Tribune Senators, so loose when it comes to their own behavior, suddenly become twitching watchdogs for virtue.
b. Of the bowels, a person: tending to diarrhoea. E16.
Not close or compact in arrangement or structure; not dense or serried; straggling. LME.
Shelley The loose array Of horsemen o'er the wide fields. J. A. Michener Instead of the compact bales.., large, loose stacks..now went to St. Louis. G. Lord The last census,..had contained fifteen households scattered in a wide, loose circle. Z. Tomin A cohesive body, not just a loose collection of signatories.
b. Botany. = LAX adjective 2b. L18.
c. Designating or pertaining to Exercise or play (esp. in Football or Hockey) in which those engaged are not close together or in which there is free movement. E19.
Not rigid, strict, correct, or careful; marked by inaccuracy or carelessness; inexact, indeterminate, vague; (of a translation) not close; (qualifying an agent-noun) doing the specified act loosely. M16.
W. D. Whitney We are loose thinkers and loose talkers. R. G. Collingwood The problems of philosophy were, even in the loosest sense of that word, eternal. Times McGlew was getting methodically behind..every ball and hitting anything loose. A. Burgess Staid conservatism is as much an enemy of the language as loose slanginess.
b. Not providing Security, unsettled. Only in 17.
Designating a stable etc. in which animals are kept untethered or in which they can move about freely. E19.
Phrases: (A small selection of cross-refs. only is included: see esp. Other verbs.) all hell let loose: see HELL noun. a screw loose: see SCREW noun1. cast loose: see CAST verb. cut loose (a) free oneself, escape, (from); (b) begin to act freely. fast and loose: see FAST adjective. have a tile loose: see TILE noun. let loose: see LET verb1.
Special collocations & comb.: loose back a method of binding the spine of a book to make it open more easily. loose-bodied adjective (of a dress) loose-fitting. loose box a stall for a horse in which the animal can move about. loose cannon fig. a person or thing causing unintentional or misdirected damage. loose change a quantity of coins for casual use, kept or left in one's pocket etc. loose coupling Electricity: in which the interdependence between circuits is weak. loose cover a detachable cover for a chair, couch, or car seat. loose end fig. (a) a disconnected or uncompleted part, a final outstanding matter, (usu. in pl.); (b) at a loose end, (N. Amer.) at loose ends, without a definite occupation, with nothing to do. loose-ended adjective ended or finished off in a slack, untidy, or inconclusive way. loose-endedness the quality or state of being loose-ended. loose-fill loose insulating material, as vermiculite, for filling spaces between rafters etc. loose fish (a) Whaling a whale not attached to a harpoon and line and free for any person to take; (b) slang a person of irregular habits, a dissipated person. loose-footed adjective (Nautical) (of a sail) not tightly held in at the foot, (of a boat) having such a sail. loose forward Rugby Football a forward who plays at the back of the scrum. loose head Rugby Football the forward in the front row of a scrummage closest to the scrum half as he (or she) puts the ball into the scrummage. loose-housed adjective kept in loose-housing. loose-housing (a method of housing cattle unconfined in) partly covered barns with access to a feeding area. loose ice ice through which a ship etc. can pass. loose-knit adjective connected in a tenuous or ill-defined way; not closely linked. loose-leaf adjective (of a notebook, ledger, etc.) made with each leaf separate for ready insertion or removal. loose-limbed adjective having supple limbs. loose-lipped adjective (a) = loose-mouthed below; (b) having full lips. loose-mouthed adjective loose-tongued; uninhibited in speech. loose order an arrangement of soldiers etc. with wide intervals between them. loose rein a rider's relaxed control of a horse, a control that is not rigorous, (chiefly in on a loose rein). loose scrum, loose scrummage Rugby Football a scrum formed by the players round the ball during play, and not ordered by the referee. loose shot marksmen not attached to a company. loose-skinned adjective having skin wrinkled or hanging in folds. loose smut any of several diseases of cereals, esp. barley and wheat, caused by smut fungi of the genus Ustilago. loose-tongued adjective likely to speak indiscreetly, blabbing.
b. adverb. Loosely; with a loose hold. L15.
sit loose (to) be independent (of), be indifferent (to).
loosely adverb LME.
looseness noun LME.

spiodea (medicine)

spiodea
<zoology> An extensive division of marine Annelida, including those that are without oral tentacles or cirri, and have the gills, when present, mostly arranged along the sides of the body. They generally live in burrows or tubes.

Origin: NL, fr. Spio the typical genus.

Source: Websters Dictionary

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