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ure of; to take apart; to untwist; to unweave or unknit; -- often followed by out; as, to ravel a twist; to ravel out a sticking. Sleep, that knits up the raveled sleave of care. Shak.

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.

Finely; gaudily; gayly; showily. And [she] decked herself bravely to allure the eyes of all men that should see her. Judith. x. 4.

The caravel of the 16th century was a small vessel with broad bows, high, narrow poop, four masts, and lateen sails. Columbus commanded three caravels on his great voyage.

kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder.

A pebble, or small fragment of stone; a calculus.

Without a grave; unburied.

The act of covering with gravel.

State of being gravelly.

Abounding with gravel; consisting of gravel; as, a gravelly soil.

In a grave manner.

subject to much traffic or travel; as, the region's most heavily traveled highways. Syn. -- heavily traveled. [WordNet 1.5]

To exceed in speed o Mad. D' Arblay.

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.