Word Meanings - UNBUTTON - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To loose the buttons of; to unfasten.
Related words: (words related to UNBUTTON)
- UNFASTEN
To loose; to unfix; to unbind; to untie. - LOOSE
laus, Icel. lauss; akin to OD. loos, D. los, AS. leás false, deceitful, G. los, loose, Dan. & Sw. lös, Goth. laus, and E. lose. 1. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book. Her hair, - LOOSEN
Etym: 1. To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a rock in the earth. After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening - LOOSESTRIFE
The name of several species of plants of the genus Lysimachia, having small star-shaped flowers, usually of a yellow color. Any species of the genus Lythrum, having purple, or, in some species, crimson flowers. Gray. False loosestrife, a plant - LOOSENESS
The state, condition, or quality, of being loose; as, the looseness of a cord; looseness of style; looseness of morals or of principles. - LOOSELY
In a loose manner. - LOOSENER
One who, or that which, loosens. - BUTTONS
A boy servant, or page, -- in allusion to the buttons on his livry. Dickens. - UNLOOSEN
To loosen; to unloose. - OUTLOOSE
A loosing from; an escape; an outlet; an evasion. That "whereas" gives me an outloose. Selden. - UNLOOSE
To make loose; to loosen; to set free. Shak.