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BAF'FLE, v.t. To mock or elude by artifice; to elude by shifts and turns; hence to defeat, or confound; as, to baffle the designs of an enemy.
Fashionable follies baffle argument.
To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as
a recreant knight.
[Obs.]
He by the heels him hung upon a tree, To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to
foil.
The art that baffles time's tyrannic claim. To check by perplexing; to disconcert,
frustrate, or defeat; to thwart.
"A baffled purpose." De
Quincey.
A suitable scripture ready to repel and baffle them
all. Calculations so difficult as to have baffled, until
within a . . . recent period, the most enlightened nations. The mere intricacy of a question should not baffle
us. Baffling wind (Naut.), one that frequently shifts from one point to another. Syn. -- To balk; thwart; foil; frustrate; defeat. To
practice deceit.
[Obs.] Barrow. To struggle against in vain; as, a ship
baffles with the winds.
[R.] A defeat by artifice,
shifts, and turns; discomfiture.
[R.] "A baffle to
philosophy." South. A deflector, as a plate or
wall, so arranged across a furnace or boiler flue as to mingle the hot
gases and deflect them against the substance to be heated.
A lever for operating
the throttle valve of a winding engine.
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