RIDDLE
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Rid"dle (?), n. [OE. ridil, AS. hridder; akin to G. reiter, L. cribrum, and to Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_; to distinguish, separate, and G. rein clean. See Crisis, Certain.] 1. 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.
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2. A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
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Rid"dle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Riddled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Riddling (?).] 1. To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel.
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2. To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot.
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Rid"dle, n. [For riddels, s being misunderstood as the plural ending; OE. ridels, redels. AS. r&unr_;dels; akin to D. raadsel, G. r&ä;thsel; fr. AS. r&unr_;dan to counsel or advise, also, to guess. √116. Cf. Read.] 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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To wring from me, and tell to them, my secret,
That solved the riddle which I had proposed.
Milton.
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'T was a strange riddle of a lady.
Hudibras.
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Rid"dle, v. t. To explain; to solve; to unriddle.
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Riddle me this, and guess him if you can.
Dryden.
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Rid"dle, v. i. To speak ambiguously or enigmatically. “Lysander riddels very prettily.” Shak.
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