Crossword clues for untruss
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Untruss \Un*truss"\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + truss.]
To loose from a truss, or as from a truss; to untie or
unfasten; to let out; to undress. [R.]
--Dryden.
Untruss \Un*truss"\, Untrusser \Un*truss"er\, n.
One who untrussed persons for the purpose of flogging them; a
public whipper. [Obs.]
--B. Jonson.
Wiktionary
n. (context obsolete English) an untrusser or public whipper vb. To free from a truss; to untie or unfasten
Usage examples of "untruss".
He sat on the edge of the cot, blowzed and untrussed, with his long hair tumbled and disordered.
I threw his frock down he clipped it up and ran off all untrussed, leaving me in this sorry plight.
I have found it most successful with a fifteen-pound turkey, unstuffed and untrussed, in a roasting pan with shallow sides and an oven at 500 degrees.
So he did the strong-man on the devotchka, who was still creech creech creeching away in very horrorshow four-in-a-bar, locking her rookers from the back, while I ripped away at this and that and the other, the others going haw haw haw still, and real good horrorshow groodies they were that then exhibited their pink glazzies, O my brothers, while I untrussed and got ready for the plunge.
Dinner-hour nearly trespassed on tea-hour, before the united muddlings of herself and Robert produced the desired effect in turning raw mutton into haricot, and an untrussed fowl into a roast.
The candlelight flickered over their light, flowing garments, their fair, untrussed hair, their smooth, ivory faces.
And Kang Xi, who, for all the Imperial gravity of his everyday demeanour, was still at heart a boy, gleefully took up the suggestion, hitched up his gown, and began untrussing his trousers.
Fumbling with cold hands in my breeches, I realised that the man next to me was untrussing likewise.
He untrusses himself and dances the dance called the Beginning of the World.
He sat on the edge of the cot, blowzed and untrussed, with his long hair tumbled and disordered.