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1828 Definition

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.

1913 Definition
Baffle (baffle)
v. t.(b1913 webster dictionaryf"f'l)
Baf"fle
[imp. *** p. p. Baffled (-f'ld)] p. pr. *** vb. n. Baffling (-fl&ibreve]ng).] [Cf. Lowland Scotch bauchle to treat contemptuously, bauch tasteless, abashed, jaded, Icel. b[uCod
  1. To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.
    [Obs.]

    He by the heels him hung upon a tree,
    And baffled so, that all which passed by
    The picture of his punishment might see.
    Spenser.

  2. To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.

    The art that baffles time's tyrannic claim.
    Cowper.

  3. 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.
    South.

    Calculations so difficult as to have baffled, until within a . . . recent period, the most enlightened nations.
    Prescott.

    The mere intricacy of a question should not baffle us.
    Locke.

    Baffling wind (Naut.), one that frequently shifts from one point to another.

    Syn. -- To balk; thwart; foil; frustrate; defeat.

  4. To practice deceit.
    [Obs.] Barrow.
  5. To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds.
    [R.]
  6. A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture.
    [R.] "A baffle to philosophy." South.
  7. 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.
    (b)
  8. A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine.
    [Local, U. S.]

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