v. Obs. exc. dial. Forms: 1 untynan, 2 untinen, 3 untunen (ontune), 5 vntynde, 9 dial. untine. [OE. untýnan (var. of an-, ontýnan), f. un- UN-2 3 + týnan TINE v.1, OHG. antzûnen, inzûnen (G. entzäunen).]
1. trans. To open.
c. 950. Lindisf. Gosp., Matt. ii. 11. [Hia] untyndon striona hiora. Ibid., ix. 30. Untynde weron ego hiora.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Gen. xli. 56. Iosep untynde ealle þa bernu.
c. 1200. Trin. Coll. Hom., 115. Openeð ȝiure gaten, and ech gate untineð ȝiu seluen to-ȝenes þe king of blisse.
c. 1205. Lay., 9781. Amarȝen þa hit dæi wes duren heo vntunden. Ibid., 18949. Nis nan cniht Þe Þe ȝeten mihten un-tunen [v.r. ontune].
1888. Donaldson, Takin th New Year in, 8 (E.D.D.). Hoo told me hood untined th door.
2. To separate, sever.
c. 1495. Epitaffe, etc., in Skeltons Wks. (1843), II. 392. Howe durst thou [sc. Death] his flessh and spyryte vntynde?