losse

noun

1. (obsolete)A lynx.

   “A losse went to prepare to hunt.”

   “Losse, lynx (Dutch, los)”

2. (alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable)Obsolete spelling of loss.

   “Who dyes the vtmoſt dolor doth abye, / But who that liues, is lefte to waile his loſſe: / So life is loſſe, and death felicity.”

   “Then way what loſſe your honor may ſuſtaine / If with too credent eare you liſt his ſongs / Or looſe your hart, or your chaſt treaſure open / To his vnmaſtred importunity.”

   “[…]the Lord denounceth thoſe iudgements againſt her, from which ſpecially ſhee bleſſed her ſelfe, euen loſſe of Soueraigntie, ſlaughter and deſolation :[…]”

   “Soe they resolved with losse of their lives to recover or to end the losse of theire libertie , being overcarried indifferently with hate and disdaine , two mightie passions to drive on disordered desires”