LOOSELY, adv. loos'ly. 1. Not fast; not firmly; that may be easily disengaged; as things loosely tied or connected.2. Without confinement.Her golden locks for haste were loosely shed about her ears.3. Without union or connection.Part loosely wing the region.4. Irregularly; not with the usual restraints.A bishop living loosely, was charged that his conversation was not according to the apostle's lives.5. Negligently; carelessly; heedlessly; as a mind loosely employed.6. Meanly; slightly.A prince should not be so loosely studied, as to remember so weak a composition.7. Wantonly; dissolutely; unchastely.
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