What is "looseness"

Usage examples of "looseness".

I once saw this same beseeching looseness of eye and mouth in the face of a ragged little faggot on Sunset Boulevard, scorched and peed-on and limping back for more.

Certainly they deserve some distinction from those works, which one of the wittiest of men regarded only as proceeding from a pruritus, or indeed rather from a looseness of the brain.

Blackberry wine, which is a trustworthy cordial astringent remedy for looseness of the bowels, may be made thus: Measure your berries, and bruise them, and to every gallon of the fruit add a quart of boiling water.

The fodder being astringent will serve by its tannin, which is abundant, to cure or prevent looseness.

There is a looseness and lushness, a romanticism and balladry, in the work, that is not quite characteristic.

In a culture where women fret over vaginal looseness and are chided continuously to practice kegels or even to consider extreme newfangled vaginal rejuvenation surgeries, the reality is that a well-positioned manual clasp will serve the purpose more effectively.

Then he relatched the metal plate, spun the wheels with his thumb to check them for alignment and looseness -- all spun freely -- and then he read the little plaque on the bottom, which specified amperage, bag type, and serial number for this particular model.

All standing up in a ring, the tenors would lead off: "I saw an old man go riding by," and the baritones, flinging themselves around with the looseness of Christy's Minstrels, in a "break down," would reply: "Don't tell me!

All standing up in a ring, the tenors would lead off: "I saw an old man go riding by," and the baritones, flinging themselves around with the looseness of Christy's Minstrels, in a " break down," would reply: Don't tell me!

Very shrewd observations are to be found in his reviews, for instance his indication, in reviewing La Touche's /Fragoletta/, of that common fault of ambitious novels, a sort of woolly and "ungraspable" looseness of construction and story, which constantly bewilders the reader as to what is going on.

She had suffered everything: vertigo, convulsions, spasms, deliriums, looseness of the bowels and bladder, and she rolled on the floor howling in pain and fury.

The result is that from difficulty to difficulty, the plain conjunctive experience has been discredited by both schools, the empiricists leaving things permanently disjoined, and the rationalist remedying the looseness by their Absolutes or Substances, or whatever other fictitious agencies of union may have employed.

He reflected on Sophie's general attitude towards these matters - her extreme disapproval of any irregularity, any levity in speaking of even a looseness that reached nowhere near as far as criminal conversation - for her looseness in conversation was criminal, almost in the lawyer's sense of the term.

This makes a trustworthy cordial astringent, used in looseness of the bowels.

He sort of helped them to achieve looseness until he had a gap big enough to push the plow through.