Emily Dickinson Lexicon

UN-BEND', v.t.

1. To free from flexure; to make straight; as to unbend a bow. Dryden.
2. To relax; to remit from a strain or from exertion; set a ease for a time; as, to unbend the mind from study or care. Denham.
3. To relax effeminately. You unbend your noble strength. Shak.
4. In seamanship, to take the sails from their yards and stays; also to cast loose a cable from the anchors; also, to untie one rope from another. Mar. Dict.