v. Now dial. [UN-2 3 + REAVE v.3] trans. To unravel.
1593. Bilson, Govt. Christ’s Ch., p. v. The warpe and webbe of the laie Presbyterie … hath so enfolded some mens wits, that they cannot vnreaue their cogitations from admiring their newe founde Consistories.
1594. Spenser, Amoretti, xxiii. Penelope … Deuiz’d a Web … in which the worke that she all day did make, the same at night she did againe vnreaue.
1898. R. Blakeborough, Wit, etc., N. Riding Yorks, 466. Unreave, to unwind.
