1. [n]  a row of unravelled stitches; "she got a run in her stocking"
2. [n]  French composer and exponent of Impressionsim (1875-1937)
3. [v]  tangle or complicate; "a ravelled story"
4. [v]  disentangle; "can you unravel the mystery?"; "unravel the ball or yarn"

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1. \Rav"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Raveled}or {Ravelled}; p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Raveling} or {Ravelling}.] [. ravelen, D.
   rafelen, akin to LG. rebeln, rebbeln, reffeln.]
   1. To separate or undo the texture 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.
   2. To undo the intricacies of; to disentangle.
   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 he not 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.
   

2. \Rav"el\, v. i.
   1. To become untwisted or unwoven; to be disentangled; to be
      relieved of intricacy.
   2. To fall into perplexity and confusion. [Obs.]
            Till, by their own perplexities involved, They ravel
            more, still less resolved.            --Milton.
   3. To make investigation or search, as by picking out the
      threads of a woven pattern. [Obs.]
            The humor of raveling into all these mystical or
            entangled matters.                    --Sir W.
                                                  Temple.