Definition of riddle

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Riddle (v. t.) To explain; to solve; to unriddle.

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Enigma :: Enigma (n.) A dark, obscure, or inexplicable saying; a riddle; a statement, the hidden meaning of which is to be discovered or guessed..
Ruddle :: Ruddle (n.) A riddle or sieve.
Prinpriddle :: Prinpriddle (n.) The long-tailed titmouse.
Griddle :: Griddle (n.) A sieve with a wire bottom, used by miners..
Riddle :: Riddle (n.) A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it..
Guess :: Guess (v. t.) To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly; as, he who guesses the riddle shall have the ring; he has guessed my designs..
Triddler :: Triddler (n.) The jacksnipe.
Riddler :: Riddler (n.) One who speaks in, or propounds, riddles..
Unriddle :: Unriddle (v. t. & i.) To read the riddle of; to solve or explain; as, to unriddle an enigma or a mystery..
Bannock :: Bannock (n.) A kind of cake or bread, in shape flat and roundish, commonly made of oatmeal or barley meal and baked on an iron plate, or griddle; -- used in Scotland and the northern counties of England..
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..
Buckwheat :: Buckwheat (n.) The triangular seed used, when ground, for griddle cakes, etc..
Enigmatize :: Enigmatize (v. i.) To make, or talk in, enigmas; to deal in 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..
Cribble :: Cribble (v. t.) To cause to pass through a sieve or riddle; to sift.
Griddle :: Griddle (n.) An iron plate or pan used for cooking cakes.
Unriddler :: Unriddler (n.) One who unriddles.
Logogriph :: Logogriph (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..
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..
Riddle :: Riddle (v. i.) To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
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