Unruffle

v. [UN-² 7 and 3.]

  1.  intr. To become smooth or tranquil.

1697.  Dryden, Æneis, I. 212. Where e’re he guides His finny Coursers,… The Waves unruffle, and the Sea subsides.

1871.  [see UNRUFFLING ppl. a.²]

  2.  trans. To restore from a ruffled state.

1827.  Lamb, Wife’s Trial, Wks. 1908, II. 805. A witch … can by a backward charm Unruffle the foul storm she has just been raising.

1833.  Lady Granville, Lett. (1894), II. 148. This does not seem to unruffle Dolly’s plumes.