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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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Contents (4 entries · 18 senses)
S&H Smith & Hall (2)
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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• loose (adj.):
    1. I. Opp. to tight; allowing room and range:
      1. 1. laxus a l. shoe, l. calceus, Hor. S. 1, 3, 31: to keep a very l. rein, laxissimas habenas habere, Cic. Am. 13, 45 (fig.).
      2. 2. fluxus (flowing, slack): l. girdle, f. cinctura, Suet. Caes. 45, extr.: a l. thong, f. habena, Liv. 38, 29, med.
    2. II. At liberty: sŏlūtus: Phaedr. 3, 7, 20 (de cane): may be defined by adding, vinculis, carcere, etc.: v. to loosen.
    3. III. Flowing freely:
      1. 1. fluxus: v. flowing (II., 2).
      2. 2. passus: as descriptive of hair; not arranged, dishevelled: capillus p., Ter. Ph. 1, 2, 56; crines p., Caes. B. G. 1, 51.
    4. IV. Of the bowels: fūsus, sŏlūtus: v. relaxed.
    5. V. Of soil sŏlūtus: Join: soluta et facilis [terra], Col. 3, 14, extr.: Plin.
    6. VI. Not firmly fastened, shaky: mōbĭlis, e: l. teeth, m. dentes, Plin. 21, 31, 105 § 180.
    7. VII. Not chaste, dissolute: dissŏlūtus v. dissolute, profligate.
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• loose, loosen (v.):
    1. I. To render loose, slacken.
      1. 1. laxo, 1: to loosen reins, frenos (habenas) l., Lucan 7, 125: cf. Virg. G. 2, 331, laxant arva sinus, of the stiff soil loosening itself before the genial breath of spring: v. to widen. So relaxo. cf. Cic. N. D. 2, 55, 138, where se relaxare is opp. to se astringere.
      2. 2. rĕmitto, 3: to tighten or loosen the reins, habenas vel adducere vel r., Cic. Am. 13, 45 Ov. Phr.: to loosen the soil round the roots of a tree, *solum circa radices arboris leniter movere ac sollicitare (cf. Virg. G. 2, 418, sollicitanda tamen tellus pulvisque movendus): to l. the teeth of any one, alicui dentes labefacere, Ter. Ad. 2, 2, 36.
    2. II. To unfasten:
      1. 1. solvo, vi, ūtum, 3: loose the steed that is growing old, solve senescentem equum, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 8. to loosen a hound, canem s., Phaedr. 3, 7, 20 see also to untie. So rĕsolvo, 3: to loosen girt raiment, cinctas r. vestes, Ov. M. 1, 382: Cat.
      2. 2. laxo, 1 (rare in this sense): to loosen knots, nodos l., Lucan 4, 632: but in this sense, relaxo is perh. better: to loosen the fastenings of a tunic, tunicae vincla r., Ov. F. 2, 321: Lucr.
      3. 3. rĕfīgo, 3: v. to unfasten.
R&A Riddle & Arnold (2)
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• LOOSE
  • adj.,
  • (A) PROP., (a) not dense, etc. (of the soil), solutus (opposed to spissus): rarus (opposed to densus): mollis (opposed to crassus): tener (opposed to glebosus): facilis (easy to work; opposed to difficilis): (b) not tight or strained, laxus (opposed to arctus and astrictus): to make loose, laxare; remittere: too loose, male laxus (calceus, Hor.): (c) at liberty, free, solutus [Vid: FREE]: the dog is loose, canis solutus est catena (when he has been set free): canis vincula abrupit (when he has broken his chain): to let loose, solvere; liberare.
  • (B) figuratively, (a) dissolute, dissipated, dissolutus (of person’s conduct): (b) lax, slovenly, discinctus: a loose style, orationis genus fluctuans et dissolutum (Auct. ad Herenn.).
  • Not costive, fusior (opposed to astrictior; Cels.): solutus (Petronius): liquidus (e.g., venter, alvus, Cels.).
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• LOOSE, LOOSEN
v. solvere, resolvere (to untie): laxare, relaxare (to make loose): refigere (to undo what has been fastened or nailed): to loosen the soil, agrum mollire (about trees), ablaqueare: to loose one’s hold, e manibus emittere, or demittere: to loose (a ship), solvere terra, or simply solvere (sc. navem); ancoram or ancoras tollere; oram solvere (☞ ancoras solvere is very rare, ancoras vellere is of doubtful authority.)