Of the bowels: Acting easily, loose. †Of a person: Having the bowels unduly relaxed.

Medicine. Of the bowels, etc.: Free from constipation or costiveness; relaxed. Now rare or Obsolete.

Loose (in the bowels); relaxed, weak. Cf. lash, adj. 2.

Of the bowels: Relaxed. Also said of the person.

Of the bowels, or the bodily constitution: Loose, subject to ‘flux’ or free discharge of the fæces. Of a disease: Characterized by such…

having the bowels relaxed.

Of the bowels: Lax, loose, open. Obsolete.