English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Result for Baffle
Baffle
(v. t.)
To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a
recreant knight.
Baffle
(v. t.)
To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.
Baffle
(v. t.)
To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or
defeat; to thwart.
Baffle
(v. i.)
To practice deceit.
Baffle
(v. i.)
To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the
winds.
Baffle
(n.)
A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture.