Word Meanings - UNBRIDLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To free from the bridle; to set loose.
Related words: (words related to UNBRIDLE)
- LOOSE
laus, Icel. lauss; akin to OD. loos, D. los, AS. leás false, deceitful, G. los, loose, Dan. & Sw. lös, Goth. laus, and E. lose. 1. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book. Her hair, - LOOSEN
Etym: 1. To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a rock in the earth. After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening - LOOSESTRIFE
The name of several species of plants of the genus Lysimachia, having small star-shaped flowers, usually of a yellow color. Any species of the genus Lythrum, having purple, or, in some species, crimson flowers. Gray. False loosestrife, a plant - BRIDLE
The piece in the interior of a gun lock, which holds in place the timbler, sear, etc. A span of rope, line, or chain made fast as both ends, so that another rope, line, or chain may be attached to its middle. A mooring hawser. Bowline bridle. See - LOOSENESS
The state, condition, or quality, of being loose; as, the looseness of a cord; looseness of style; looseness of morals or of principles. - BRIDLE IRON
A strong flat bar of iron, so bent as to support, as in a stirrup, one end of a floor timber, etc., where no sufficient bearing can be had; -- called also stirrup and hanger. - LOOSELY
In a loose manner. - LOOSENER
One who, or that which, loosens. - BRIDLER
One who bridles; one who restrains and governs, as with a bridle. Milton. - UNLOOSEN
To loosen; to unloose. - OUTLOOSE
A loosing from; an escape; an outlet; an evasion. That "whereas" gives me an outloose. Selden. - UNBRIDLE
To free from the bridle; to set loose. - UNBRIDLED
Loosed from the bridle, or as from the bridle; hence, unrestrained; licentious; violent; as, unbridled passions. "Unbridled boldness." B. Jonson. Lands deluged by unbridled floods. Wordsworth. -- Un*bri"dled*ness, n. Abp. Leighton. - UNLOOSE
To make loose; to loosen; to set free. Shak.