The century dictionary and cyclopedia, a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge with a new atlas of the world . sen a cough, to relieve the affected parts from asense of constriction; promote expectoration.—TO lOOSenthe bowels, to relieve them from costiveness. II. intrans. To become loose; become lessfiglit, firm, or (losner), n. 1. One who loosens.—2. That which loosens; a laxative. It wrought neither as an astringent or as a loosener; norlike opium, or bark, or mercui-y. Sterne, Tristram Shandy, IX. xxv. (19). looseness (losnes), n. 1. The state of bein
The century dictionary and cyclopedia, a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge with a new atlas of the world . sen a cough, to relieve the affected parts from asense of constriction; promote expectoration.—TO lOOSenthe bowels, to relieve them from costiveness. II. intrans. To become loose; become lessfiglit, firm, or (losner), n. 1. One who loosens.—2. That which loosens; a laxative. It wrought neither as an astringent or as a loosener; norlike opium, or bark, or mercui-y. Sterne, Tristram Shandy, IX. xxv. (19). looseness (losnes), n. 1. The state of beingloose or relaxed; laxness of attachment, ad-justment, connection, or coherence: as, thelooseness of a cord or a vein; looseness of theskin, of earth, or of the texture of cloth; loose-ness of expression or of reasoning. To the conversational education of the Athenians I aminclined to attribute the great loosenessoi reasoning whichis remarkable in most of tlieir scientific writings. Macautay, .\thenian Orators. 2. Irregularity; instability; habitual devia-tion from rules; as applied to conduct, laxity;immorality; Loosestrife iLysimachia quadrifolia).I, upper part of the stem with the flowers;. lower part, showing the rhizome; a, flow-;r: b, fruit. lop When the people slacken, and fall to loosenes. :md riot,then doe they as much as if they laid downe their necksfor some wily Tyrant to get up and ride. Milton, Reformation in Eng., iL 3. Flux from the bowels; diarrhea. loosening-bar (losning-bar), n. See 6«;1. loosestrife (losstrif), «. [< loose, v., + ; translating the Gr. name /^vaifiaxia, Hvai- ^), loose-strife: see InboL, the Eng-lish popularname of sev-eral species ofplants, chieflyof the generaLysimachiaanHLythrtim. Along the Wall,kill the spikedloosestrife, a tall,downy weed, withlarge, purple flow-ers, has fong beencommon. J. Burrougfvi,[The Century,[XX. 99. Common loose-strife, Lysima-chia vulgaris orLythrum
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