unti

v. t. [ AS. unt&ymacr_;gan. See 1st Un-, and Tie, v. t. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of; as, to untie a knot. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sacharissa's captive fain
Would untie his iron chain. Waller. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her snakes untied, sulphurous waters drink. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind. [ 1913 Webster ]

Though you untie the winds, and let them fight
Against the churches. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

All the evils of an untied tongue we put upon the accounts of drunkenness. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To resolve; to unfold; to clear. [ 1913 Webster ]

They quicken sloth, perplexities untie. Denham. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To become untied or loosed. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + tighten. ] To make less tight or tense; to loosen. [ 1913 Webster ]

prep. [ OE. until, ontil; un- (as in unto) + til till; cf. Dan. indtil, Sw. intill. See Unto, and Till, prep. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To; unto; towards; -- used of material objects. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Taverners until them told the same. Piers Plowman. [ 1913 Webster ]

He roused himself full blithe, and hastened them until. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To; up to; till; before; -- used of time; as, he staid until evening; he will not come back until the end of the month. [ 1913 Webster ]

He and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity. Judg. xviii. 30. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In contracts and like documents until is construed as exclusive of the date mentioned unless it was the manifest intent of the parties to include it. [ 1913 Webster ]

conj. As far as; to the place or degree that; especially, up to the time that; till. See Till, conj. [ 1913 Webster ]

In open prospect nothing bounds our eye,
Until the earth seems joined unto the sky. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

But the rest of the dead lives not again until the thousand years were finished. Rev. xx. 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + tile. ] To take the tiles from; to uncover by removing the tiles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An unseasonable time. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A man shall not eat in untime. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Unseasonableness. [ 1913 Webster ]