Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Loose \Loose\, n.
   1. Freedom from restraint. [Obs.] --Prior.

   2. A letting go; discharge. --B. Jonson.

   {To give a loose}, to give freedom.

            Vent all its griefs, and give a loose to sorrow.
                                                  --Addison.