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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Library in Itself

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Ravel

Ravel (ravel)
v. t.(r1913 webster dictionaryv"'l)
Rav"el
[imp. *** p. p. Raveled (-'ld) or Ravelled] p. pr. *** vb. n. Raveling or Ravelling.] [OD. ravelen, D. rafelen, akin to LG. rebeln, rebbeln, reffeln<
  1. To separate or undo the texture of] to take apart; to untwist; to unweave or unknit; -- often followed by out; as, to ravel a twist; to ravel out a stocking.

    Sleep, that knits up the raveled sleave of care. Shak.

  2. To undo the intricacies of; to disentangle.
  3. To pull apart, as the threads of a texture, and let them fall into a tangled mass; hence, to entangle; to make intricate; to involve.

    What glory 's due to him that could divide
    Such raveled interests? has the knot untied?     Waller.

    The faith of very many men seems a duty so weak and indifferent, is so often untwisted by violence, or raveled and entangled in weak discourses! Jer. Taylor.

Ravel

Ravel (ravel)
v. i.
Rav"el
  1. To become untwisted or unwoven; to be disentangled; to be relieved of intricacy.
  2. To fall into perplexity and confusion.
    [Obs.]

    Till, by their own perplexities involved,
    They ravel more, still less resolved.     Milton.

  3. To make investigation or search, as by picking out the threads of a woven pattern.
    [Obs.]

    The humor of raveling into all these mystical or entangled matters. Sir W. Temple.













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