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Word Meanings - UNBUCKLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To loose the buckles of; to unfasten; as, to unbuckle a shoe. "Unbuckle anon thy purse." Chaucer.

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  • UNFASTEN
    To loose; to unfix; to unbind; to untie.
  • PURSEFUL
    All that is, or can be, contained in a purse; enough to fill a purse.
  • 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,
  • PURSERSHIP
    The office of purser. Totten.
  • 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
  • LOOSENESS
    The state, condition, or quality, of being loose; as, the looseness of a cord; looseness of style; looseness of morals or of principles.
  • PURSER
    A commissioned officer in the navy who had charge of the provisions, clothing, and public moneys on shipboard; -- now called paymaster. 2. A clerk on steam passenger vessels whose duty it is to keep the accounts of the vessels, such as the receipt
  • PURSE
    1. A small bag or pouch, the opening of which is made to draw together closely, used to carry money in; by extension, any receptacle for money carried on the person; a wallet; a pocketbook; a portemonnaie. Chaucer. Who steals my purse steals trash.
  • PURSET
    A purse or purse net. B. Jonson.
  • LOOSELY
    In a loose manner.
  • LOOSENER
    One who, or that which, loosens.
  • PURSE-PROUD
    Affected with purse pride; puffed up with the possession of riches.
  • UNBUCKLE
    To loose the buckles of; to unfasten; as, to unbuckle a shoe. "Unbuckle anon thy purse." Chaucer.
  • UNPURSED
    1. Robbed of a purse, or of money. Pollock. 2. Taken from the purse; expended. Gower.
  • UNLOOSEN
    To loosen; to unloose.
  • CUTPURSE
    One who cuts purses for the sake of stealing them or their contents (an act common when men wore purses fastened by a string to their girdles); one who steals from the person; a pickpocket To have an open ear, a quick eye, and a nimble hand, is
  • OUTLOOSE
    A loosing from; an escape; an outlet; an evasion. That "whereas" gives me an outloose. Selden.
  • DISPURSE
    To disburse. Shak.
  • SEA PURSE
    The horny egg case of a skate, and of certain sharks.
  • UNLOOSE
    To make loose; to loosen; to set free. Shak.

 

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