lowse

American  

[lohs, lohz] / loʊs, loʊz /

adjective

lowser, lowsest, lowsed, lowsing

1. loose.

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lowse British  

/ laʊz, laʊs /

adjective

1. loose

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verb

1. (tr) to release; loose

2. (intr) to finish work

3. the time at which work or school finishes; knocking-off time

Etymology

Origin of lowse

a Scot variant of _loose

Example Sentences

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lowse lowsed

It juist mindit me o' the picture, in oor big Bible, o' Jerusalem when the fowk cam' back frae Babylon till't—it was juist a' lyin' a cairn o' lowse steens an' half bricks.

From My Man Sandy by Salmond, J. B.

He yalpit awa' a' on ae note, juist like's he was roarin' to somebody to lowse the penter; an' though Sandy keepit gaen, he was in a richt raise.

From My Man Sandy by Salmond, J. B.

O lowse my right hand free, he says, And put my braid sword in the same; He’s no in Stirling town this day, Dare tell the tale to Hughie Graham.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

"Haste ye away!" cried she, "lest the soldiers break lowse and come and find ye here!"

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

But yae nicht Yon sent Gibbie's sin to find him oot; or maybe the Black Thing in the Hole gat lowse, because it was his hour.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

If the man be dead, she is lowsed from the law of the man.

From The first New Testament printed in English by

And we entered into a ship of Adramicium, and lowsed from land, appointed to sail by the coasts of Asia, one Aristarcus out of Macedonia, of the country of Thessalia, being with us.

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Then said Agrippa unto Festus: This man might have been lowsed if he had not appealed unto Cesar.

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An' how ye gat him in your thrall, An' brak him out o' house an' hall, While scabs and blotches did him gall Wi' bitter claw, An' lowsed his ill-tongued wicked scaw, Was warst ava?

From The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by Grant, James, archaeologist

Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundation of the prison was shaken, and by and by all the doors opened, and every man's bonds were lowsed.

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