1. intr. To loosen hold.
1645. Milton, Tetrach., 11. A canonicall infection liver-grown to their sides; which perhaps will never uncling, without the strong abstersive of som heroick magistrat.
1710. J. Norris, Chr. Prud., viii. 358. When even this cleaving Fólly … shall uncling and drop from us.
2. trans. To unclasp; to loosen from clinging.
a. 1711. Ken, Preparatives, Poet. Wks. 1721, IV. 34. I have got the Wing, You without Fear your Fingers may uncling.
1750. G. Hughes, Barbados, 305. It is found to be a difficult task for a very able man to uncling one of them from the rocks.
