looseness

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Many of the Sick have not the least Degree of Fever, nor of Thirst, which perhaps is less common in this Disease, than in a simple Purging or Looseness.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)

If there is a violent Looseness, Diascordium must be substituted instead of the Rob of Elder-berries.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)

"Looseness of contact is a great virtue in Hughes' microphone;" and "the elements which work advantages in Hughes' are detrimental to the good working of the articulating instrument."

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 by Various

Looseness, why is there a shadow in a kitchen, there is a shadow in a kitchen because every little thing is bigger.

From Tender Buttons Objects—Food—Rooms by Stein, Gertrude

Looseness of principle as to property rights was not as strange to her imagination as to that of her mother-in-law.

From The Portion of Labor by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins