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RID'DLE, n. [See Cradle.]

An instrument for cleaning grain, being a large sieve with a perforated button, which permits the grain to pass through it, but retains the chaff.

RID'DLE, v.t. To separate, as grain from the chaff with a riddle; as, to riddle wheat. [Note. The machines now used have nearly superseded the riddle.]

RID'DLE, n. [See Read.]

1. An enigma; something proposed for conjecture, or that is to be solved by conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition. Judges 14.

2. Any thing ambiguous or puzzling.

RID'DLE, v.t. To solve; to explain; but we generally use unriddle, which is more proper.

Riddle me this, and guess him if you can.

RID'DLE, v.i. To speak ambiguously, obscurely or enigmatically.



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RID'DLE, n. [See Cradle.]

An instrument for cleaning grain, being a large sieve with a perforated button, which permits the grain to pass through it, but retains the chaff.

RID'DLE, v.t. To separate, as grain from the chaff with a riddle; as, to riddle wheat. [Note. The machines now used have nearly superseded the riddle.]

RID'DLE, n. [See Read.]

1. An enigma; something proposed for conjecture, or that is to be solved by conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition. Judges 14.

2. Any thing ambiguous or puzzling.

RID'DLE, v.t. To solve; to explain; but we generally use unriddle, which is more proper.

Riddle me this, and guess him if you can.

RID'DLE, v.i. To speak ambiguously, obscurely or enigmatically.


RID'DLE, n.1 [Sax. hriddel; W. rhidyll, from rhidiaw, to secrete, to separate; Corn. ridar or krodar; Arm. ridell or croezr; Ir. criathar, a riddle; cratham, to shake; G. rütteln, to shake, to riddle; W. crydu, to shake; allied to rid and to cradle, from driving. See Cradle.]

An instrument for cleaning grain, being a large sieve with a perforated bottom, which permits the grain to pass through it, but retains the chaff.


RID'DLE, n.2 [Sax. rædelse; D. raadzel; G. räthsel; from Sax. ræden, D. raaden, G. rathen, to counsel or advise, also to guess. See Read.]

  1. An enigma; something proposed for conjecture, or that is to be solved by conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition. – Judges xiv. Milton.
  2. Any thing ambiguous or puzzling. – Hudibras.

RID'DLE, v.i.

To speak ambiguously, obscurely or enigmatically. – Shak.


RID'DLE, v.t.1

  1. To separate, as grain from the chaff with a riddle; as, to riddle wheat. Note. The machines now used have nearly superseded the riddle.
  2. To perforate with balls; to make little holes in, as a house riddled with shot.

RID'DLE, v.t.2

To solve; to explain; but we generally use unriddle, which is more proper. Riddle me this, and guess him if you can. – Dryden.


Rid"dle
  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. To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle] to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel.
  3. 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.

  4. To explain; to solve; to unriddle.

    Riddle me this, and guess him if you can. Dryden.

  5. To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.

    "Lysander riddels very prettily." Shak.
  6. A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
  7. To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot.
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Riddle

RID'DLE, noun [See Cradle.]

An instrument for cleaning grain, being a large sieve with a perforated button, which permits the grain to pass through it, but retains the chaff.

RID'DLE, verb transitive To separate, as grain from the chaff with a riddle; as, to riddle wheat. [Note. The machines now used have nearly superseded the riddle ]

RID'DLE, noun [See Read.]

1. An enigma; something proposed for conjecture, or that is to be solved by conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition. Judges 14:12.

2. Any thing ambiguous or puzzling.

RID'DLE, verb transitive To solve; to explain; but we generally use unriddle, which is more proper.

Riddle me this, and guess him if you can.

RID'DLE, verb intransitive To speak ambiguously, obscurely or enigmatically.

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