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The thorax of Arthropods.
A blow; a stroke.
To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.
A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture.
To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds.
To practice deceit.
To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart.
To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.
of Baffle
The process or act of baffling, or of being baffled; frustration; check.
One who, or that which, baffles.
of Baffle
Frustrating; discomfiting; disconcerting; as, baffling currents, winds, tasks.
Same as Bafta.
A coarse stuff, usually of cotton, originally made in India. Also, an imitation of this fabric made for export.
To seize, capture, or entrap; as, to bag an army; to bag game.
To put into a bag; as, to bag hops.
To furnish or load with a bag or with a well filled bag.
To swell or hang down like a full bag; as, the skin bags from containing morbid matter.
To swell with arrogance.