3. To pull apart, as the threads of a texture, and let them fall into a
tangled mass; hence, to entangle; to make intricate; to involve.
What glory 's due to him that could divide Such raveled interests?
has the knot untied?
Waller.
The faith of very many men seems a duty so weak and indifferent, is
so often untwisted by violence, or raveled and entangled in weak
discourses!
Jer. Taylor.
Rav"el, v. i. 1. To become untwisted or unwoven; to be disentangled; to
be relieved of intricacy.