These are the meanings of the letters UOLSOE when you unscramble them.
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Loose (superl.)
Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book.
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Loose (superl.)
Free from constraint or obligation; not bound by duty, habit, etc. ; -- with from or of.
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Loose (superl.)
Not tight or close; as, a loose garment.
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Loose (superl.)
Not dense, close, compact, or crowded; as, a cloth of loose texture.
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Loose (superl.)
Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate; as, a loose style, or way of reasoning.
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Loose (superl.)
Not strict in matters of morality; not rigid according to some standard of right.
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Loose (superl.)
Unconnected; rambling.
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Loose (superl.)
Lax; not costive; having lax bowels.
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Loose (superl.)
Dissolute; unchaste; as, a loose man or woman.
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Loose (superl.)
Containing or consisting of obscene or unchaste language; as, a loose epistle.
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Loose (n.)
Freedom from restraint.
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Loose (n.)
A letting go; discharge.
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Loose (a.)
To untie or unbind; to free from any fastening; to remove the shackles or fastenings of; to set free; to relieve.
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Loose (a.)
To release from anything obligatory or burdensome; to disengage; hence, to absolve; to remit.
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Loose (a.)
To relax; to loosen; to make less strict.
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Loose (a.)
To solve; to interpret.
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Loose (v. i.)
To set sail.
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Louse (n.)
Any one of numerous species of small, wingless, suctorial, parasitic insects belonging to a tribe (Pediculina), now usually regarded as degraded Hemiptera. To this group belong of the lice of man and other mammals; as, the head louse of man (Pediculus capitis), the body louse (P. vestimenti), and the crab louse (Phthirius pubis), and many others. See Crab louse, Dog louse, Cattle louse, etc., under Crab, Dog, etc.
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Louse (n.)
Any one of numerous small mandibulate insects, mostly parasitic on birds, and feeding on the feathers. They are known as Mallophaga, or bird lice, though some occur on the hair of mammals. They are usually regarded as degraded Pseudoneuroptera. See Mallophaga.
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Louse (n.)
Any one of the numerous species of aphids, or plant lice. See Aphid.
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Louse (n.)
Any small crustacean parasitic on fishes. See Branchiura, and Ichthvophthira.
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Louse (v. t.)
To clean from lice.
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Ousel (n.)
One of several species of European thrushes, especially the blackbird (Merula merula, or Turdus merula), and the mountain or ring ousel (Turdus torquatus).