ravel
ravel
v. trans.
See tangle.
v. trans.
See tangle.
RAVEL
implicare (PROP. and figuratively): to ravel out (intransitively) *solvi or se solvere.
implicare (PROP. and figuratively): to ravel out (intransitively) *solvi or se solvere.
ravel:
I. In old usage, to untwist: rĕtexo, ui, xtum, 3: like Penelope, r.g her web, quasi P. telam retexens, Cic. Acad. 2, 29, 95: the web r.'d secretly at night, nocturno tela retexta dolo, Ov. Am. 3, 9, 30 (cf. Prop. 2, 7, 44; nocturno solvens texta diurna dolo "the night still ravelled what the day renewed," Pope, Hom. Od. 19, 150): v.UNRAVEL .
II. To entangle: implĭco, etc.: v.TO ENTWINE , ENTANGLE .
I. In old usage, to untwist: rĕtexo, ui, xtum, 3: like Penelope, r.g her web, quasi P. telam retexens, Cic. Acad. 2, 29, 95: the web r.'d secretly at night, nocturno tela retexta dolo, Ov. Am. 3, 9, 30 (cf. Prop. 2, 7, 44; nocturno solvens texta diurna dolo "the night still ravelled what the day renewed," Pope, Hom. Od. 19, 150): v.
II. To entangle: implĭco, etc.: v.