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|Text=[[File:woodhouse_499.jpg|thumb|link={{filepath:woodhouse_499.jpg}}]]'''adj.'''
<b class="b2">Of consistency</b>; P. [[μανός]].
<b class="b2">Slack</b>: Ar. and P. [[χαλαρός]]. P. and V. ἀνειμένος.
<b class="b2">Your girdle is loose</b>: V. ζῶναι . . . χαλῶσι (Eur., ''Bacch.'' 935).
<b class="b2">Inexact</b>: P. and V. οὐκ [[ἀκριβής]].
<b class="b2">Not firm</b>: P. and V. οὐ [[βέβαιος]].
<b class="b2">At liberty, at large</b>: P. and V. [[ἄφετος]], ἀνειμένος.
<b class="b2">Wanton</b>: P. and V. [[ἀκόλαστος]], ἀνειμένος. Ar. and P. τρυφερος.
<b class="b2">Break loose</b>, v.; see [[escape]].
<b class="b2">Let loose</b>: see [[loose]], v.
<b class="b2">Let loose upon</b>: see [[launch against]].
'''v. trans.'''
P. and V. [[λύω|λύειν]], ἐκλύειν; see [[undo]], [[free]], [[deliver]]: P. and V. ἐλευθεροῦν, ἀφιέναι, ἀπαλλάσσειν, ἐκλύειν (or mid.), [[λύω|λύειν]], ἀπολύειν (Eur., ''Or.'' 1236), V. ἐξαπαλλάσσειν (also Thuc. in pass.).
<b class="b2">Relax</b>: P. and V. ἀνιέναι, χαλᾶν, μεθιέναι. P. ἐπανιέναι. V. ἐξανιέναι.
<b class="b2">Help to loose</b>: V. συλλύειν.
<b class="b2">Help to deliver</b>: P. συνελευθεροῦν (acc.).
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