Lax

laks, adj., slack: loose: soft, flabby: not crowded not strict in discipline or morals loose in the bowels. adv. Laxly. {L. lax us, loose, laxo ~atum, to unloose prob. akin to Languid.] Laxation, laks-a's hun, «. act of loosening: state of being loose or slackened.