1. To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of; as, to untie a knot. Sacharissa's captive fain Would untie his iron chain. (waller) Her snakes untied, sulphurous waters drink. (pope)
2. To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind. Though you untie the winds, and let them fight Against the churches. (Shak) All the evils of an untied tongue we put upon the accounts of drunkenness. (Jer. Taylor)
Origin: AS. Untgan. See 1st Un-, and Tie.