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One who ravels.

A detached work with two embankments with make a salient angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of the place. Formerly called demilune and half-moon.

That which is raveled out; esp., a thread detached from a texture.

A kind of dried sausage. McElrath.

Safely. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A man shaved; hence, a monk, or other religious; -- used in contempt. I am no longer a shaveling than while my frock is on my back. Sir W. Scott.

To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets.

Harassed; fatigued with travel. [Obs.] Shak.

Having made journeys; having gained knowledge or experience by traveling; hence, knowing; experienced. [Written also travelled.] The traveled thane, Athenian Aberdeen. Byron.

One who travels; one who has traveled much.

To disentangle; to disengage or separate the threads of; as, to unravel a stocking.

The act of unraveling, or the state of being unraveled.

Not traveled; not trodden by passengers; as, an untraveled forest.

A gavel or rent paid for a privilege, as of fishing, in some river or water.

Free from waves; undisturbed; not agitated; as, the waveless sea.

A little wave; a ripple.

A hydrous phosphate of alumina, occurring usually in hemispherical radiated forms varying in color from white to yellow, green, or black.

That which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction. His travels were full of absurdities. Johnson.

Deposits of earth, sand, gravel, and other transported matter, made by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas. Lyell.

rtaining to a walk. [R.] The princess of whom his majesty had an ambulatory view in his travels. Sir H. Wotton.