rauwolfia

[Named after Leonhardt Rauwolf, an Augsburg physician, who traveled through Palestine, ., in 1753-5.] boil, boy; pout, jowl; cat, çell, chorus, 211 Botany: A genus of Apocynaceæ, tribe Cari eæ, Tropical American shrubs, with opposite or whorled leaves and corymbose flowers. The black juice in chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; rāve, subst. [Etym. doubtful.] One of the side pieces of a wagon-body frame or of a sleigh. rave-hook, 8. [RASING-IRON.] răv'-el, *rav-ell, *ryv-ell, v . t . & i . [Dut. raf. elen to fray out, to unweave; cf. Low Ger. reffeln .] A. Transitive : 1. To untwist, to unweave, to disentangle. ( Lit. & fig.) "Make you to ravel all this matter out." Shakesp.: Hamlet , iii. 4. 2. To entangle; to twist together; to involve; to make intricate, involved, or entangled. "What glory's due to him who could divide Such ravel'd interests?" Waller: To the King. *3. To hurry over in confusion. "They but ravel it over loosely, and pitch upon disputing against particular conclusions." -Digby. B. Intransitive : 1. To become untwisted; to be disentangled. "The contexture of this discourse will perhaps be the le subject to ravel out, if I hem it with the speech of our learned and pious annotator."- Spencer : Prodigies , p. 202. *2. To become entangled, confused, involved, or perplexed. "They ravel more still le resolved." Milton: Samson Agonistes, 305. *3. To busy one's self with intricacies; to wander. "It will be needle to ravel far into the records of elder times; every man's memory will suggest many pertinent instances."-Decay of Piety.