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n.
A sort of riddle in which it is required to discover a chosen word from various combinations of its letters, or of some of its letters, which form other words; -- thus, to discover the chosen word chatter form cat, hat, rat, hate, rate, etc.
n.
A riddle or sieve.
v. t.
To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot.
n.
One who riddles (grain, sand, etc.).
n.
A long, coarse riddle or sieve, sometimes a revolving perforated cylinder, used to separate the coarser from the finer parts, as of coal, sand, gravel, and the like.
n.
A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
v. t.
To interpret; to explain; as, to read a riddle.
n.
Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling.
v. i.
To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Riddle
v. t.
To loose; to open; to take to piece; to unfasten; to untie; hence, to unravel; to solve; as, to undo a knot; to undo a puzzling question; to undo a riddle.
imp. & p. p.
of Riddle
v. t.
To explain; to solve; to unriddle.
n.
A riddle or sieve.
n.
One who speaks in, or propounds, riddles.
a.
Speaking in a riddle or riddles; containing a riddle.
v. t.
To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel.
n.
A riddle or obscure question; an enigma; a ridiculous hoax.
n.
A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
v. t. & i.
To read the riddle of; to solve or explain; as, to unriddle an enigma or a mystery.
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