UNTWIST • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Untwist

... recourse to far-fetched and abstracted Ratiocination [Errata: Ratiocinations], to know what are the sensible ingredients of those sensible things that we daily see and handle, and are supposed to have the liberty to untwist (if I may so speak) into the primitive bodies they consist of. He annexed that he wished therefore they would no longer delay his expected satisfaction, if they had not, as he feared they had, forgotten something preparatory to their debate; and that was to lay down what should be all ...

— The Sceptical Chymist • Robert Boyle

... upon our knee, To untwist and break with ease, And place the cords, one, two, and three, So that the points are formed, ...

— How to Make a Shoe • Jno. P. Headley