- (v.t.) To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.
- (v.t.) To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.
- (v.i.) To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds.
- (v.t.) To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate or defeat; to thwart.
- (n.) A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture.
- (v.i.) To practice deceit.
- (n.) A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine.
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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