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▪ I. loosening, vbl. n.|ˈluːs(ə)nɪŋ|
[-ing1.]
The action of loosen v. in various senses.
1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 26 b/2 Without hurtinge of the gummes, and looseninge of the same. 1615Hieron Wks. I. 654 Thus is death a loosening to the children of God. 1626Bacon Sylva §435 The Loosening of the Earth, which comforteth any Tree. 1860Tyndall Glac. ii. xix. 333 Ice gives evidence of a loosening of its crystalline texture. 1876M. E. Braddon J. Haggard's Dau. I. 35 A signal for the loosening of everyone else's tongue. 1883R. W. Dixon Mano iii. v. 126 Like the tightening and the loosening of a cord.
▪ II. ˈloosening, ppl. a.
[-ing2.]
That loosens, in various senses of the vb.
1665Hooke Microgr. 13 The strange loosening nature of a violent jarring motion. 1694Salmon Bate's Dispens. (1699) 529/1 Laxative or Loosening Tartar. 1758J. S. Le Dran's Observ. Surg. (1771) Dict. Cc ij, Laxative, or Loosening Medicines. 1801Southey Thalaba ix. xlii, Thalaba Watches her snowy fingers..Unwind the loosening chain. 1886C. Scott Sheep-Farming 15 They are fed upon roots..which exert a loosening effect on the teeth. |