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unscroll

vb. To open or unfold progressively, as a scroll does.

Usage examples of "unscroll".

My uncalm heart, my breath unscrolling, white smoke in the freezing air.

He sat watching the firmament unscroll up from behind the blackened palisades of the mountains to the east.

The elders had shown Mappo and the others all that was in danger of being lost, the power that resided in the telling of tales, the ritual unscrolling of memory.

One never wanted an unscrolled child in one's household, making claim to a line.

From the leeward side of the lurching quarterdeck, Captain Quilter watched in helpless anger as the sky rapidly unscrolled itself above the heads of the struggling topmen, above the tops of the masts that, as the sheets of rain thickened, were almost lost to view.

With the rolled-up parchments tucked under his arm or inside a weather-worn scrip strapped round his neck he would present himself at Clement's Inn, or one of two dozen others, and I would sit in quiet anterooms, watching through the doorway as my hunchbacked father in his dirty ruff shyly and with trembling hands unscrolled his wares on the desk of thin-chopped unsmiling law clerks.