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Unmortise

Unmortise \Un*mor"tise\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + mortise.] To loosen, unfix, or separate, as things mortised together.
--Tennyson.

Usage examples of "unmortise".

The space had been hewn from the rock on which the castle was founded, the walls of glistening, unmortised black stone decorated with brightly colored caricatures of bone-white, cadaverous men and women with cruel carmine mouths and ridiculously elongated limbs and exaggerated fangs.