Word Meanings - UNTWINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To untwist; to separate, as that which is twined or twisted; to disentangle; to untie. It requires a long and powerful counter sympathy in a nation to untwine the ties of custom which bind a people to the established and the old. Sir W. Hamilton.
Related words: (words related to UNTWINE)
- COUNTERBRACE
To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another. - TWINLEAF
See JEFFERSONIA - TWINGE
OFries. thwinga, twinga, dwinga, to constrain, D. dwingen, OS. thwingan, G. zwingen, OHG. dwingan, thwingan, to press, oppress, overcome, Icel. þvinga, Sw. tvinga to subdue, constrain, Dan. twinge, and AS. þün to press, OHG. duhen, and probably - COUNTERACTIVE
Tending to counteract. - COUNTERFLEURY
Counterflory. - COUNTERVIEW
1. An opposite or opposing view; opposition; a posture in which two persons front each other. Within the gates of hell sat Death and Sin, In counterview. Milton M. Peisse has ably advocated the counterview in his preface and appendixx. - COUNTER WEIGHT
A counterpoise. - COUNTERJUMPER
A salesman in a shop; a shopman; -- used contemtuously. - COUNTERPLEAD
To plead the contrary of; to plead against; to deny. - COUNTER BRACE
The brace of the fore-topsail on the leeward side of a vessel. - COUNTERIRRITANT; COUNTERIRRITATION
See A - COUNTER
A prefix meaning contrary, opposite, in opposition; as, counteract, counterbalance, countercheck. See Counter, adv. & a. (more info) Note: - PEOPLE
1. The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation. Unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Gen. xlix. 10. The ants are a people not strong. Prov. xxx. - COUNTERGUARD
A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protecting them from a breaching fire. - POWERFUL
Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any - TWINNER
One who gives birth to twins; a breeder of twins. Tusser. - COUNTERACT
To act in opposition to; to hinder, defeat, or frustrate, by contrary agency or influence; as, to counteract the effect of medicines; to counteract good advice. - UNTWIST
1. To separate and open, as twisted threads; to turn back, as that which is twisted; to untwine. If one of the twines of the twist do untwist, The twine that untwisteth, untwisteth the twist. Wallis. 2. To untie; to open; to disentangle. Milton. - COUNTERMARK
An artificial cavity made in the teeth of horses that have outgrown their natural mark, to disguise their age. (more info) 1. A mark or token added to those already existing, in order to afford security or proof; as, an additional or special mark - INDIGNATION
1. The feeling excited by that which is unworthy, base, or disgraceful; anger mingled with contempt, disgust, or abhorrence. Shak. Indignation expresses a strong and elevated disapprobation of mind, which is also inspired by something flagitious - RESIGNATION
1. The act of resigning or giving up, as a claim, possession, office, or the like; surrender; as, the resignation of a crown or comission. 2. The state of being resigned or submissive; quiet or patient submission; unresisting acquiescence; as, - INSEPARATE
Not separate; together; united. Shak. - ACCUSTOMARILY
Customarily. - DECLINATION
The angular distance of any object from the celestial equator, either northward or southward. (more info) 1. The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head. 2. The act or state of falling off or declining - ELIMINATION
the act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories. (more info) 1. The act of expelling or throwing off; - CALCINATION
The act or process of disintegrating a substance, or rendering it friable by the action of heat, esp. by the expulsion of some volatile matter, as when carbonic and acid is expelled from carbonate of calcium in the burning of limestone in order - ENCOUNTERER
One who encounters; an opponent; an antagonist. Atterbury. - PROSTERNATION
Dejection; depression. Wiseman. - INTERNATIONAL
1. Between or among nations; pertaining to the intercourse of nations; participated in by two or more nations; common to, or affecting, two or more nations. 2. Of or concerning the association called the International. International code - INGANNATION
Cheat; deception. Sir T. Brown.