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v. i.
To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
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.
a.
Speaking in a riddle or riddles; containing a riddle.
n.
A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
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.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Riddle
n.
A riddle or sieve.
n.
One who speaks in, or propounds, riddles.
n.
One who riddles (grain, sand, etc.).
n.
Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling.
v. t.
To interpret; to explain; as, to read a riddle.
v. t.
To explain; to solve; to unriddle.
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 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 perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot.
v. t. & i.
To read the riddle of; to solve or explain; as, to unriddle an enigma or a mystery.
n.
A riddle or sieve.
imp. & p. p.
of Riddle
n.
A riddle or obscure question; an enigma; a ridiculous hoax.
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.
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