Definition of riddle

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Riddle (v. i.) To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.

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Undo :: Undo (v. t.) To loose; to open; to take to piece; to unfasten; to untie; hence, to unravel; to solve; as, to undo a knot; to undo a puzzling question; to undo a riddle..
Riddle :: Riddle (v. t.) To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot..
Ruddle :: Ruddle (n.) A riddle or sieve.
Girdle :: Girdle (n.) A griddle.
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..
Griddle :: Griddle (n.) A sieve with a wire bottom, used by miners..
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..
Crumpet :: Crumpet (n.) A kind of large, thin muffin or cake, light and spongy, and cooked on a griddle or spider..
Ree :: Ree (v. t.) To riddle; to sift; to separate or throw off.
Triddler :: Triddler (n.) The jacksnipe.
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..
Riddler :: Riddler (n.) One who riddles (grain, sand, etc.)..
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..
Rudder :: Rudder (n.) A riddle or sieve.
Quiz :: Quiz (n.) A riddle or obscure question; an enigma; a ridiculous hoax.
Buckwheat :: Buckwheat (n.) The triangular seed used, when ground, for griddle cakes, etc..
Riddled :: Riddled (imp. & p. p.) of Riddl.
Slapjack :: Slapjack (n.) A flat batter cake cooked on a griddle; a flapjack; a griddlecake.
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..
Unriddler :: Unriddler (n.) One who unriddles.
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