Definition of riddle

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Riddle (n.) A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it..

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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..
Cribble :: Cribble (v. t.) To cause to pass through a sieve or riddle; to sift.
Riddle :: Riddle (v. i.) To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
Girdle :: Girdle (n.) A griddle.
Fry :: Fry (v. t.) To cook in a pan or on a griddle (esp. with the use of fat, butter, or olive oil) by heating over a fire; to cook in boiling lard or fat; as, to fry fish; to fry doughnuts..
Read :: Read (v. t.) To interpret; to explain; as, to read a riddle..
Riddling :: Riddling (a.) Speaking in a riddle or riddles; containing a riddle.
Crumpet :: Crumpet (n.) A kind of large, thin muffin or cake, light and spongy, and cooked on a griddle or spider..
Screen :: Screen (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..
Prinpriddle :: Prinpriddle (n.) The long-tailed titmouse.
Triddler :: Triddler (n.) The jacksnipe.
Riddle :: Riddle (v. t.) To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot..
Expound :: Expound (v. t.) To lay open the meaning of; to explain; to clear of obscurity; to interpret; as, to expound a text of Scripture, a law, a word, a meaning, or a riddle..
Griddlecake :: Griddlecake (n.) A cake baked or fried on a griddle, esp. a thin batter cake, as of buckwheat or common flour..
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..
Griddle :: Griddle (n.) An iron plate or pan used for cooking cakes.
Quiz :: Quiz (n.) A riddle or obscure question; an enigma; a ridiculous hoax.
Conundrum :: Conundrum (n.) A kind of riddle based upon some fanciful or fantastic resemblance between things quite unlike; a puzzling question, of which the answer is or involves a pun..
Unriddle :: Unriddle (v. t. & i.) To read the riddle of; to solve or explain; as, to unriddle an enigma or a mystery..
Ruddle :: Ruddle (n.) A riddle or sieve.
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