LOOSE

An Illustrated Encyclopedic Medical Dictionary · 1893 · p. 28

adj. Lus. Goth., laus. Fr., delie, Idche. Ger., los. Unconfined, lax, relaxed; of the intestinal canal, discharging its contents freely; of a cough, attended with free secretion, [a, 48.] [s. 668]