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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

UNTWI'NE, v.t.
1. To untwist.
2. To open; to disentangle.
3. To separate, as that which winds or clasps.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: undo what has been twined together; "untwine the strings" [ant: enlace, entwine, interlace, intertwine, lace, twine]

Merriam Webster's

Date: 15th century transitive verb 1. to unwind the twisted or tangled parts of ; disentangle 2. to remove by unwinding intransitive verb to become disentangled or unwound

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. & intr. untwist, unwind.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Untwine Un*twine", v. t. [1st pref. un- + twine.] 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Untwine Un*twine", v. i. To become untwined. --Milton.