4. Not dense, close, compact, or crowded; as, a cloth of loose texture.

With horse and chariots ranked in loose array.

Milton.

5. Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate; as, a loose style, or

way of reasoning.

The comparison employed . . . must be considered rather as a loose

analogy than as an exact scientific explanation.

Whewel.

6. Not strict in matters of morality; not rigid according to some

standard of right.

The loose morality which he had learned.

Sir W. Scott.

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