| Baffle (baffle) |
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| v. t. | (b f"f'l) |
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| Baf"fle |
| [imp.
*** p. p. Baffled (-f'ld)] p. pr. *** vb. n.
Baffling (-fl&ibreve]ng).] [Cf. Lowland Scotch bauchle to
treat contemptuously, bauch tasteless, abashed, jaded, Icel.
b[uCod |
To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as
a recreant knight.
To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to
foil.
To check by perplexing; to disconcert,
frustrate, or defeat; to thwart.
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| Baffle (baffle) |
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| v. i. | |
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| Baf"fle |
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To
practice deceit.
To struggle against in vain; as, a ship
baffles with the winds.
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A defeat by artifice,
shifts, and turns; discomfiture.
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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.
A lever for operating
the throttle valve of a winding engine.
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