LOO 
This uncafy loop-hol'd gaol, 
Tii which y’ are hamper'd by the fetlock, 
Cannot but put y’ in mind of wedlock. Hudibras, 
LOOTED, adj. Full of holes; 
Foor naked wretches, wherefoe’er you are, 
That bide the pelting of this pitilefs ftorm! 
How (hall your houfelefs heads and unfed fides, 
Your loop'd and window’d raggednefs, defend you 
From feafons fuch as thefe ? Shakefp. King Lear. 
LOOTING, f. in metallurgy, a word ufed by the mi¬ 
ners of fotne counties of England, to exprefs the running- 
together of the matter of an ore into a mafs, in the roalting 
or firft burning, intended only to calcine it fo far as to 
make it fit for powdering. This accident, which gives 
the miners fome trouble, is generally owing to continuing 
the fire too long in this procefs. 
LOO'POOL, a lake two miles long, near Hellion, in 
Cornwall. 
LOORD,/. [loerd, Dut. lourdaut, Fr. lurdan , Erfe; a 
heavy, ftupid, or witlefs, fellow,] A drone: 
Siker, thou’s but a lazy loord, 
And rekes much of thy fwinke. 
That with fond terms and witlefs words 
To bleer mine eyes do’ft think. Spenfer's Paf orals. 
LOOS, f. [/or, old Fr.] Glory: 
That much he feared, lead reprochfull blame 
With foule dishonour him mote blot therefore; 
Befides the Ioffe of fo much loos and fame, 
As through the world therefore fhould glorifie his name. 
Spenfer. 
LOOS, or Loo'seus (Cornelius), who in fome of his 
writings affumed the name of Cornelius Callidius, was a 
Dutch catholic divine in the fixteenth century, who pur- 
fued his ftudies at Mentz, where he was admitted to the 
degree of doCtor, and afterwards obtained the canonry of 
Gouda, which was his native place. Being obliged to 
quit his country during the civil wars, he retired to Bruf- 
lels, where he was appointed a vicar of a parifh, and fpent 
the remainder of his life. He is entitled to notice for 
the liberality with which he furmounted the prejudices of 
his age, and the boidnefs with which he ventured to ex- 
pofe the prevailing fuperftitious notions relating to per¬ 
sons pretendedly bewitched, or faid to be poffeffed, whom 
he pronounced to be weak ignorant fools, or impudent 
impoftors. This opinion he frankly avowed in converfa- 
tion, and endeavoured fo difabufe the public on the fub- 
jeft, by .printing a treatife, De varies ct falfa Magia. But 
the clergy took an alarm at the author’s freedom, which 
threatened ruin to their gainful practice of exorcifms; 
and, having been denounced by the jefuit Delzio, he was 
condemned to imprifonment, from which he was not li¬ 
berated tiil he had retraced his opinion. For afferting it 
again, he was a fecond time committed to temporary cuf- 
tody; and, after his releafe, not being able to conceal his 
contempt of fraud and prieftly knavery, he would have 
been imprifoned for the third time, and moll probably 
proved a martyr to his honeft zeal againft impofture, had 
he not been removed by death in 1595. He was the au¬ 
thor of fome other works, which were well received, fuch 
as, Illuftrium Germania: utriufque Scriptorum Cata- 
logus, 1581, Svo. 3. De tumultuofa Belgarum Rebellione 
fedanda, 1579, Bvo, 4. Defenfio Urbis et Orbis, 1581, 
gvo. 5. Duellum Fidei et Rationis, 1581, Svo. 6. Sco- 
pire Latinje, ad purgandam Linguam a Barbarie, 1582, 
Svo. and other works', enumerated in Valeri Andrea Bibl. 
Belgic. 
LO'OSA, /*. in botany. SeeLOASA, vol.xii. p. 852, 3. 
To LOOSE., v. a, [leyan, Sax.] To unbind ;■ to untie 
any thing fattened.—'The thoes of his feet I am not wor¬ 
thy to loofe. A&s. —Can’ft thou loo/e the bands of Orion? 
job .—To relax.—The joints of his loins were loafed. Da~ 
To unbind any one bound .'—Loofe him., and bring 
Voi>. XIII. No. 933. 
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him to me. Luke.— To free from imprifonment.—The 
captive hafteneth that he may be loafed. IJaidh. —He loafed 
and let at liberty four or five kings of the people of that 
country that Berok kept in chains. Abbot. —To free from 
any obligation.—Art thou loofed from a wife ? feek not a 
wife. 1 Corinthians. —To^free from any thing that lhackles 
the mind: 
Ay; there’s the man, who, loos'd from luff and pelf, 
Lefs to the pretor owes than to himfelf. Drydcrt. 
To free from any thing painful.—Woman, thou art loofed 
from thy infirmity. Luke.— To difengage : 
When heav’n was nam’d, they loos'd their hold again. 
Then fprung ttie forth, they follow’d her amain. ^ Dry den, 
To folve: 
Much like in foulnefle and deformity 
Unto that monfter, whom the Theban knight 
(The father of the fatal progeny) 
Made kill herfelfe for very heart’s defpight 
That he had red her riddle, which no wight 
Could ever loofe. Spenfer. 
To LOOSE, v. n. To fet fail; to depart by loofing the 
anchor.—The emperor, loafing from Barcelona, came to the 
port of Mago, in the illand of Minorca. Knolles. 
LOOSE, adj. Unbound; untied.—Lo ! I lee four men 
loofe walking. Dan. iii. 25.—Not fall; not fixed.—Thole 
few that dallied might rebound after the collffion ; or, if 
they cohered, yet by the next conflict might be feparated 
again, and fo on in an eternal vicifiitude of fait and loofe, 
though without ever confociating into the bodies of pla¬ 
nets. Bentley. —Not tight: as, a loofe robe.—Not crowded; 
not clofe : 
With extended wings a holt might p.afs, 
With horfe and chariots rank’d in loofe array. Milton. 
Wanton ; not chafte : 
When loofe epiltles violate chaffe eyes, 
She half confents who filently denies. Dryden's Ovid. 
Not clofe; notconcife; lax.—If an author be loofe and 
diffufe in his Ityle, the tranfiator needs only regard the 
propriety of the language. Felton —Vague ; indetermi¬ 
nate; not accurate.—It is but a loofe thing to fpeak of 
polfibilities, without the particular defigns ; fo is it to 
fpeak of lawful nets without the particular cafes. Bacon.— 
Not ItriCt; not rigid.—Becaufe confcience, and the fear of 
fwerving from that which is right, maketh them diligent 
obfervers of circumltances, the loofe regard whereof is the 
nurfe of vulgar folly. Hooker. —Unconnected ; rambling. 
—Vario fpends whole mornings in running over loofe and 
unconnected pages, and with frefh curiofity is ever glanc¬ 
ing over new words and ideas, and yet treafures up but 
little knowledge. Watts on the Mind. —Lax of body ; not 
coftive.—What hath a great influence upon the healthy 
is going to (tool regularly; people that are very loofe have 
feldom Itrong thoughts or (trong bodies. Locke on Educa¬ 
tion. —Difengaged ; not enflaved.—Their principle is, to 
fit as loofe from pleafures, and be as moderate in the ufe of 
them, as they can. Atlerbury. —Difengaged from obliga¬ 
tion : commonly with from ; in the following line with ‘of; 
.Now I ftand 
Loofe of my vow ; but who knows Cato’s thoughts ? Add. 
Free from confinement.—They did not let prifoners loofe 
homeward. Ifaiah. —Remifs; not attentive. 
To break Loose. To gain liberty.—If to break loofe 
from the conduct of reafon, and to want that reitraint or 
examination which keeps us from chufing the worfe, be 
liberty, madmen and fools are only the freemen. Locke. 
Like two black ftorms on either hand, 
Our Spanilh army and the Indians Hand ; ' 
This only fpace betwixt the clouds is clear, 
Where you, like day, broke loofe from both appear. Dry den , 
To let Loose. To fet at liberty : to fet at large 3 to free 
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