[f. UNTWIST v.] Taken out of a twisted state.
1611. Florio, Sfilaccio, okame of vntwisted ropes.
1629. Ford, Lover’s Melancholy, IV. 59. If the Fates Haue spun my thred and my spent clue of life Be now vntwisted.
1738[?]. Warburton, Div. Legat., II. App. (R.). The solar light is not less real in the rainbow where it’s rays become thus untwisted.
1848. Buckley, Iliad, 26. The ropes have become untwisted.
fig. a. 1700. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, Untwisted, Undone, Ruin’d.
1756. Monitor, No. 35. I. 329. Mrs. Bull … cries out, Lord. Doctor! we are all untwisted, all undone.
1785. Grose, Dict. Vulgar T., s.v.
