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A broad piece of paper, whether folded or unfolded, whether blank or written or printed upon; hence, a letter; a newspaper, etc.

, wares, drugs, etc., are sold by retail. From shop to shop Wandering, and littering with unfolded silks The polished counter. Cowper.

To explain; to resolve; to unfold; to clear up out to a result or conclusion; as, to solve a doubt; to solve difficulties; to solve a problem. True piety would effectually solve such scruples. South. God shall solve the dark decrees of fate. Tickell.

e simple negative, of the action of the verb to which it is prefixed; as in uncoil, undo, unfold. (b) To nouns to form verbs expressing privation of the thing, quality, or state expressed by the noun, or separation from it; as in unchild, unsex. Sometimes particles and participial adjectives formed with this prefix coi…

To explain or unfold a matter; to make a revelation. [Obs.] "I will unbolt to you." Shak.

To unwind, unfold, or untie; hence, to undo; to ruin. Shak.

To unfold, or render single.

To loose from a furled state; to unfold; to expand; to open or spread; as, to unfurl sails; to unfurl a flag.

To unfold. [Obs.] Wyclif.

To take out the folds or twists of, as something previously platted; to unfold; to unwreathe.

To unfold; to lay open; to explain. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Hence, to clear from complication or difficulty; to unfold; to solve; as, to unravel a plot.

To resolve; to unfold; to clear. They quicken sloth, perplexities untie. Denham.

To unfold or undo, as a tuck; to release from a tuck or fold.

To unfold; to undo; to ravel, as what has been woven.