English English Dictionary
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.