noun. A proposition so framed as to exercise one's ingenuity in discovering its meaning; an ambiguous, complex, or puzzling question offered for solution; an enigma; a dark saying.

noun. Anything abstruse, intricate, paradoxical, or puzzling; a puzzle.

noun. A person who manifests ambiguities or contradictions of character or conduct.

To explain; interpret; solve; unriddle.

To understand; make out.

To puzzle; perplex.

To speak in riddles, ambiguously, or enigmatically.

noun. A sieve, especially a coarse one for sand, grain, and the like.

noun. In founding, a sieve with half-inch mesh, used in the molding-shop for cleaning and mixing old floor-sand.

noun. In hydraulic engineering, a form of river-weir.

noun. In wire-working, a flat board set with iron pins sloped in opposite directions. It is used to straighten wire, which is drawn in a zigzag course between the pins.

To sift through a riddle or sieve: as, to riddle sand.

To sift by means of a coarse-netted dredge, as young oysters on a bed.

To reduce in quantity as if by sifting; condense.

To fill with holes; especially, to perforate with shot so as to make like a riddle; hence, to puncture or pierce all over as if with shot; penetrate.

To use a riddle or sieve; pass anything through a riddle.

To fall in drops or fine streams, as through a riddle or sieve.

noun. A curtain; a bed-curtain; in a church, one of the pair of curtains inclosing an altar on the north and south, often hung from rods driven into the wall.

To plait.

noun. In minting. See the extract.

noun. 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.

noun. A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.

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

transitive verb. To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle.

transitive verb. To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in.

transitive verb. To explain; to solve; to unriddle.

intransitive verb. To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.

noun. A sieve.

verb. To fill with holes.

verb. To fill or spread throughout; to pervade.

verb. To put something through a sieve

noun. A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature, such as "It's black, and white, and red all over. What is it?"

verb. To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.

verb. To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question

verb. speak in riddles

verb. set a difficult problem or riddle

verb. pierce with many holes

noun. a difficult problem

verb. spread or diffuse through

verb. explain a riddle

verb. separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff

noun. a coarse sieve (as for gravel)

"But the riddle is usually about, what is the truth?"

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amaze  baffle  beat  bewilder  communicate  

Biddle  Piddle  fiddle  kiddle  middle  

allusion  anecdote  anomaly  blunder  contradiction  

Chinese puzzle  anagram  answer  arabesque  assort  

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