Riddle : (noun)
1: a difficult problem [syn: conundrum, enigma, brain-teaser]
2: a coarse sieve (as for gravel)
(verb)
1: pierce many times; "The bullets riddled his body"
2: set a difficult problem or riddle; "riddle me a riddle"
3: separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff [syn: screen]
4: speak in riddles
5: explain a riddle
Based on WordNet 2.0
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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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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.
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Riddle : \Rid"dle\, v. t.
To explain; to solve; to unriddle.
Riddle me this, and guess him if you can. --Dryden.
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Riddle : \Rid"dle\, v. i.
To speak ambiguously or enigmatically. ``Lysander riddels
very prettily.'' --Shak.
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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
Based on U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [Census_Database]:
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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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