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▪ I. unˈtwisted, ppl. a.1
[un-1 8.]
Not twisted or twined.
1575Turberv. Faulconrie 97 Threade it with untwisted threade. 1825J. Neal Bro. Jonathan III. 323 Have you forgotten..how you broke away from us like the Philistine from the untwisted flax? 1865Tylor Early Hist. Man. vii. 188 The warp consists of strands of un-twisted fibre. 1866R. M. Ferguson Electr. 21 A magnetic bar, suspended by..a few untwisted filaments of cocoon silk.
▪ II. unˈtwisted, ppl. a.2
[f. untwist v.]
Taken out of a twisted state.
1611Florio, Sfilaccio, okame of vntwisted ropes. 1629Ford Lover's Melancholy iv. 59 If the Fates Haue spun my thred and my spent clue of life Be now vntwisted. 1738Warburton Div. Legat. ii. App. (R.), The solar light is not less real in the rainbow where it's rays become thus un⁓twisted. 1848Buckley Iliad 26 The ropes have become untwisted.
fig.a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Untwisted, Undone, Ruin'd. 1756Monitor No. 35. I. 329 Mrs. Bull..cries out,..Lord, Doctor! we are all untwisted, all undone. 1785Grose Dict. Vulgar T. s.v. |