unlute

From un- +‎ lute.

unlute (third-person singular simple present unlutes, present participle unluting, simple past and past participle unluted)

1. (transitive) To separate, as things cemented or luted
2. (transitive) to take the lute from, to unseal
   • 1696, M. le Clerc, The Compleat Surgeon:

     Let the Vessels be cool'd, and unluted, and the Panacæa will appear at the bottom of the Cucurbite

   • 1673, Robert Boyle, “(please specify the title)”, in Essays of the Strange Subtilty, Great Efficacy, Determinate Nature of Effluviums. […], London: […] W[illiam] G[odbid] for M[oses] Pitt, […], →OCLC:

     carelesly unlute the vessels

• “unlute”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.