Emily Dickinson Lexicon

LOOSE'LY, adv. [loos'ly.]

1. Not fast; not firmly; that may be easily disengaged; as, things loosely tied or connected.
2. Without confinement. Her golden locks for haste were loosely shed / About her ears. – Spenser.
3. Without union or connection. Part loosely wing the region. – Milton.
4. Irregularly; not with the usual restraints. A bishop living loosely, was charged that his conversation was not according to the apostles' lives. – Camden.
5. Negligently; carelessly; heedlessly; as, a mind loosely employed. – Locke.
6. Meanly; slightly. A prince should not be so loosely studied, as to remember so weak a composition. – Shak.
7. Wantonly; dissolutely; unchastely. – Pope.