Definition of riddle

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Riddle (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..

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Riddle :: 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..
Griddle :: Griddle (n.) An iron plate or pan used for cooking cakes.
Riddle :: Riddle (v. i.) To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
Triddler :: Triddler (n.) The jacksnipe.
Resolve :: Resolve (v. i.) To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; -- said of complex ideas or obscure questions; to make clear or certain; to free from doubt; to disentangle; to unravel; to explain; hence, to clear up, or dispel, as doubt; as, to resolve a riddle..
Key :: Key (n.) A position or condition which affords entrance, control, pr possession, etc.; as, the key of a line of defense; the key of a country; the key of a political situation. Hence, that which serves to unlock, open, discover, or solve something unknown or difficult; as, the key to a riddle; the key to a problem..
Unriddler :: Unriddler (n.) One who unriddles.
Prinpriddle :: Prinpriddle (n.) The long-tailed titmouse.
Cake :: Cake (n.) A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes.
Griddlecake :: Griddlecake (n.) A cake baked or fried on a griddle, esp. a thin batter cake, as of buckwheat or common flour..
Quiz :: Quiz (n.) A riddle or obscure question; an enigma; a ridiculous hoax.
Riddle :: Riddle (n.) Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling..
Riddler :: Riddler (n.) One who speaks in, or propounds, riddles..
Riddle :: Riddle (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..
Flapjack :: Flapjack (n.) A fklat cake turned on the griddle while cooking; a griddlecake or pacake.
Rebus :: Rebus (n.) A mode of expressing words and phrases by pictures of objects whose names resemble those words, or the syllables of which they are composed; enigmatical representation of words by figures; hence, a peculiar form of riddle made up of such representations..
Ree :: Ree (v. t.) To riddle; to sift; to separate or throw off.
Unriddle :: Unriddle (v. t. & i.) To read the riddle of; to solve or explain; as, to unriddle an enigma or a mystery..
Cribble :: Cribble (v. t.) To cause to pass through a sieve or riddle; to sift.
Riddled :: Riddled (imp. & p. p.) of Riddl.
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