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.
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.
The humor of raveling into all these mystical or entangled matters. Sir W. Temple.