Definition of riddle

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Riddle (n.) Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling..

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Riddled :: Riddled (imp. & p. p.) of Riddl.
Rudder :: Rudder (n.) A riddle or sieve.
Pancake :: Pancake (n.) A thin cake of batter fried in a pan or on a griddle; a griddlecake; a flapjack.
Triddler :: Triddler (n.) The jacksnipe.
Griddlecake :: Griddlecake (n.) A cake baked or fried on a griddle, esp. a thin batter cake, as of buckwheat or common flour..
Riddler :: Riddler (n.) One who speaks in, or propounds, riddles..
Ruddle :: Ruddle (n.) A riddle or sieve.
Cake :: Cake (n.) A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes.
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..
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..
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..
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..
Ree :: Ree (v. t.) To riddle; to sift; to separate or throw off.
Riddle :: Riddle (n.) A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it..
Riddling :: Riddling (a.) Speaking in a riddle or riddles; containing a riddle.
Flapjack :: Flapjack (n.) A fklat cake turned on the griddle while cooking; a griddlecake or pacake.
Unriddler :: Unriddler (n.) One who unriddles.
Griddle :: Griddle (n.) An iron plate or pan used for cooking cakes.
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 explain; to solve; to unriddle.
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