Baffle

Baffle - Other Definitions

• (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. t.) To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart.
  
  
• (v. i.) To practice deceit.
  
  
• (v. i.) To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds.
  
  
• (n.) A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture.