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Baf"fle (băf"f'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Baffled (-f'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Baffling (-flĭng).] [Cf. Lowland Scotch bauchle to treat contemptuously, bauch tasteless, abashed, jaded, Icel. b&ā;gr uneasy, poor, or b&ā;gr, n., struggle, bægja to push, treat harshly, OF. beffler, beffer, to mock, deceive, dial. G. b&ä;ppe mouth, beffen to bark, chide.]
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1. To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight. [Obs.]
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He by the heels him hung upon a tree,
And baffled so, that all which passed by
The picture of his punishment might see.
Spenser.
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2. To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.
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The art that baffles time's tyrannic claim. Cowper.
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3. To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart.A baffled purpose.” De Quincey.
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A suitable scripture ready to repel and baffle them all. South.
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Calculations so difficult as to have baffled, until within a . . . recent period, the most enlightened nations. Prescott.
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The mere intricacy of a question should not baffle us. Locke.
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Baffling wind (Naut.), one that frequently shifts from one point to another.
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Syn. -- To balk; thwart; foil; frustrate; defeat.
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Baf"fle, v. i. 1. To practice deceit. [Obs.] Barrow.
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2. To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds. [R.]
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Baf"fle, n. 1. A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture. [R.]A baffle to philosophy.” South.
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2. (Engin.) (a) A deflector, as a plate or wall, so arranged across a furnace or boiler flue as to mingle the hot gases and deflect them against the substance to be heated. (b) A grating or plate across a channel or pipe conveying water, gas, or the like, by which the flow is rendered more uniform in different parts of the cross section of the stream; -- used in measuring the rate of flow, as by means of a weir.
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2. (Coal Mining) A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine. [Local, U. S.]
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