unperplexing

Under this painful material stress, indeed, the messages are sometimes crushed into a conciseness which the females concerned must have some difficulty in unperplexing: what on earth does the parsimonious _Flower_ mean by his Delphic fourpenny worth, thus punctuated --

Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910

I teased my spirit with the imaginary task of unperplexing the liquid maze, of drawing a map of this dædal network of intersecting waters.

Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia Norman Douglas 1910