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from any reftraint.—And let the living bird loofe Into the 
open field. Lev. xiv.—We ourfelves make our fortunes 
good or bad ; and when God lets loqfe a tyrant upon us, 
or a ficknefs, if we fear to die, or know not to be patient, 
the calamity fits heavy upon us. Taylor. 
LOOSE, f Liberty; freedom from reftraint.—Poets 
Should not, under a pretence of imitating the ancients, 
give themfelves fuch a loofe in lyrics, as if there were no 
connection in the world. Felton on the Clajjtcs. 
The fiery Pegafus difdains 
To mind the rider’s voice, or hear the reins; 
When glorious fields and opening camps he views, 
He runs with an unbounded loofe. Prior. 
Pifmifiion from any reltraining force.—Air at large maketh 
r.o noife, except it be fharply perculTed ; as in the found 
of a firing, where air is percufled by a hard and ftiff body, 
end with a (harp loofe. Bacon. 
LOO'SE-STRIFE, f. in botany. See Anacallis and 
Lysimachia : 
The royal loofe-Jlrife, royal gentian, grace 
Qur gardens. Tate's Cowley. 
LOO'SE-STRIFE, CODDED. See Epilobium. 
LOO'SE-STRIFE,PURPLE, and SPIKED. See Lr- 
THRUM. 
LOO'SE-STRIFE, VIRGINIAN. See Gaura. 
LOO'SEDUYNEN, or Lau'sdun, a village of Holland, 
four miles fouth-fouth-weft from the Hague. Mr. Ray, 
In his Journey through the Low Countries, &c. fays, 
Whilft vve were at the Plague, we took the opportunity 
of view ing the burial-place of a certain lady of Zealand, in 
the church of Laufdun, a village of about five or fix Eng- 
lifh miles from the Hague; who, as the infcription tells 
you, was Margaret, the wife of Herman earl of Henneberg, 
and daughter of Florentius earl of Holland and Zeeland, 
and filter to William king of the Romans, See. This 
lady, being about forty years of age, and meeting with a 
poor woman that had twins in her arms, told her that file 
Snuft have been diflioneft to her hufband, as not believing 
$hat two children could be got at once; at which the poor 
woman, being highly concerned, wifhed that (lie might 
tiring forth as many children at a birth as there were days 
in the year; which was fulfilled in 1176, when at one 
birth fne was brought to bed of 365 children, of both 
fexes, who were baptifed by Guido, a Suffragan of Utrecht, 
in two brafs bafins, the fons having the name of John, and 
■■die daughters that of Elizabeth, given them ; and.foon af¬ 
ter died, all in one day, as did alio the mother, and were 
buried in this church of the village of Laufdun. This in¬ 
fcription is to be feen in Latin, over the two bafins in 
■which they fay thefe children were baptized, and beneath 
it alfo this following dillich : 
En tibi monjlrofum nimis & memorabile faElum , 
Vitale nee a mundi conditione datum. 
This hiftory is found in Erafmus, Vives, Guichardin, Ca- 
inerarius, Gui Dominique, Pierre d’Oudergeft, author of 
the Annals of Flanders, and many other authors; and, 
what is extraordinary, as a thing well attested.” 
LOO'SELY, adv. Not fait; -not firmly; eafily to be 
difengaged: 
i thought your love eternal: was it ty’d 
.So loofely, that a quarrel could divide ? Dryden. 
Without bandage : 
Pier golden locks for halte were loofely (hed 
About her ears. Fairy Oueen. 
Without union or connection.— Pie has within himfelf, 
all degrees of perfection that exilt loofely and Separately In 
all fecond beings. Norris. 
Part loofely wing the region, part more wife 
In common, rang’d in figure, wedge their way. Milton. 
Irregularly.-—A bilhop, living loofely, was charged that 
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h!s conversation was not according to the apoflles’ lives, 
Camden. —Negligently; carelefsly.—The chiming of fome 
particular words in the memory, and making a noife in 
the head, feldom happens but when the mind is lazy, or 
very loofely and negligently employed. Locke. —Unfolidly; 
meanly; without dignity.—A prince fliould not be fo 
loofely Studied, as to remember fo weak a compofition. 
Shakefpeare.- —Unchaftely: 
The Stage how loofely does Aftrasa tread, 
Who fairly puts all characters to bed ? Pope. 
To LOO'SEN, v. n. To part; to tend to reparation.—. 
When the polypus appears in the throat, extract it that 
way, it being more ready to loofen when pulled in that di¬ 
rection than by the nofe. Sharp's Surgery. 
To LO'OSEN, v. a. To relax any thing tied.—To make 
lefs coherent.—After a year’s rooting, then Shaking doth 
the tree good, by loofening of the earth. Bacon's Nat. Hi]}. 
—To feparate a compages: 
She breaks her back, the loofen'd fides give way, 
And plunge the Tufcan foldiers in the fea. Dryden. 
To free from reftraint.—It refolves thofe difficulties which 
the rules beget; it loofens his hands, and aififts his under¬ 
standing. Dryden's Dufrefnoy. —To make not coftive.—Fear 
loofenelh the belly; becaufe, the heat retiring towards the 
heart, the guts are relaxed, in the fame manner as fear alio 
caufeth trembling. Bacon’s Nat. FUJI. 
LOO'SENESS,yi State contrary to that of being faft or 
fixed.—The caule of the carting of Skip and Shell Should 
feem to be the loofenefs of the fkin or Shell, that fticketh 
not clofe to the SieSh. Bacon. — Latitude; criminal levity. 
—A general loofenefs of principles and manners hath feized 
on us like a peitilence, that walketh not in darktiefs, but 
wafteth at noon-day. Atterbury ->—Irregularity ; negleCt of 
laws.—He endeavoured to win the common people, both 
by Strained curtefy and by loofenefs of life. Hayward. — 
Lewdnefs; unchaltity : 
Courtly court he made ftill to his dame, 
Pour’d out in loofenefs on the graffy ground, 
Both carelefs of his health and of his fame. Spenfer. 
Diarrhoea; flux of the belly.—Taking cold moveth loofe¬ 
nefs by contraction of the Skin and outward parts. Bacon's 
Nat. Hiflory. 
LOO'SING,y. The aCt of unbinding; of reiaxing ; of 
delivering from any thing difagreeable. 
LOO'SER, adj. LooSe in a greater degree. 
LOO'SEST, adj. LooSe in the greatelt degree. 
LOOT, f. A weight in Holland, 32 of which are equal 
to 1 lb. of commercial weight, and 24 — ilb. of apothe¬ 
caries’ weight, or |lb. troy. 
LOO'TIES,_/i [from loot, Arab, plunder, or pillage.] 
Irregular horfemen belonging to the native princes of 
Hindooftan, who plunder and lay wafte the country, and 
liarafs the enemy in their march. 
LOO'TZMAN, f. A coafting pilot. Phillips. 
LOO'VER, f. An open place on the root of a lioufe. 
Phillips. 
LOOZ, or Lootz. See Eorchloen, vol. iii. 
LOP. SeeTANTABEE, 
To LOP, v. a. [derived by Skinner from laube, Ger. a 
leaf.] To cut the branches of trees.—The oak, growing 
from a plant to a great tree, and then lopped, is ftill the 
fame oak. Locke. 
The :100k She bore, inftead of Cynthia’s fpear, 
To lop the growth of the luxuriant year. Pope. 
To cut any thing.—All that denominated it paradife was 
lopped off by the deluge, and that only left which it en¬ 
joyed in common with its neighbour countries. Woodward's 
Nat. Hijl. 
Rhyme lure in needlefs bonds the poet ties, 
Procruftus like, the ax or wheel applies. 
To lop the mangled fenfe, 0f Stretch it into Size. Smith. 
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