v. (UN-2 3. Cf. Du. ontspinnen.)
a. 1585. in Holinshed, Chron., II. 416/1. Oh cruel fates! the which so soone, his vitall thred vnsponne.
1638. Mayne, Lucian (1664), 304. Is’t not in your power to change, and unspinne their decrees?
1638. N. Whiting, Albino & Bellama, 1176. My teeming fancy strives … to … make those garden-minutes see the sun Entombed in darkness, and the earth unspun Ere they expire.
a. 1703. J. Pomfret, Last Epiphany, vi. Whilst backward all the Threads shall haste to be unspun.
1845. Mozley, Ess. (1878), II. 102. The web was respun, that it might be unspun again.
