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8 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Riddle \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. 2. To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in as a house riddled with shot. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Riddle \Rid"dle\, n. [For riddels s being misunderstood as the plural ending; OE ridels redels. AS r?dels; akin to D. raadsel G. r["a]thsel; fr AS r?dan to counsel or advise, also to guess. [root]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. To wring from me and tell to them my secret, That solved the riddle which I had proposed. --Milton. 'T was a strange riddle of a lady. --Hudibras. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Riddle \Rid"dle\, n. [OE. ridil, AS hridder; akin to G. reiter, L. cribrum and to Gr ??? 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. 2. A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Riddle \Rid"dle\, v. t. To explain; to solve; to unriddle. Riddle me this and guess him if you can. --Dryden. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Riddle \Rid"dle\, v. i. To speak ambiguously or enigmatically. ``Lysander riddels very prettily.'' --Shak. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: riddle n 1: a difficult problem [syn: {conundrum}, {enigma}, {brain-teaser}] 2: a coarse sieve (as for gravel) v 1: pierce many times; "The bullets riddled his body" 2: set a riddle 3: separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff [syn: {screen}] 4: speak in riddles 5: explain a riddle From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: Riddle, OR (city, FIPS 61850) Location: 42.95370 N, 123.36612 W Population (1990): 1143 (427 housing units) Area: 1.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 97469 From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Riddle (Heb. hodah). The oldest and strictly speaking, the only example of a riddle was that propounded by Samson (Judg. 14:12-18). The parabolic prophecy in Ezek. 17:2-18 is there called a "riddle." It was rather, however, an allegory. The word darkly" in 1 Cor. 13:12 is the rendering of the Greek enigma; marg., "in a riddle."
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