Un*truth" (?), n. 1. The quality of being untrue; contrariety to truth;
want of veracity; also, treachery; faithlessness; disloyalty. Chaucer.
2. That which is untrue; a false assertion; a falsehood; a lie; also,
an act of treachery or disloyalty. Shak.
Syn. — Lie; falsehood. See Lie.
Un*truth"ful (?), a. Not truthful; unveracious; contrary to the truth
or the fact. — Un*truth"ful*ly, adv. — Un*truth"ful*ness, n.
Un*tuck" (?), v. t. [1st pref. un- + tuck.] To unfold or undo, as a
tuck; to release from a tuck or fold.
Un*tune" (?), v. t. [1st pref. un- + tune.] To make incapable of
harmony, or of harmonious action; to put out of tune. Shak.
Un*turn" (?), v. t. [1st pref. un- + turn.] To turn in a reserve way,
especially so as to open something; as, to unturn a key. Keats.
Un*turned" (?), a. [Pref. un- + turned.] Not turned; not revolved or
reversed.
To leave no stone unturned, to leave nothing untried for accomplishing
one's purpose.
[He] left unturned no stone To make my guilt appear, and hide his own.
Dryden.
Un*twain" (?), v. t. [1st pref. un- + twain.] To rend in twain; to tear
in two. [Obs.] Skelton.
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.
Un*twine", v. i. To become untwined. Milton.
Un*twirl" (?), v. t. [1st pref. un- + twirl.] To untwist; to undo. Ash.