Noah Webster
Unbend
UNBEND', verb transitive
1. To free from flexure; to make straight; as, to unbend a bow.
2. To relax; to remit from a strain or from exertion; to set at ease for a time; as, to unbend the mind from study or care.
3. To relax effeminately.
You unbend your noble strength.
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.