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American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2
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Riddle
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 The machines now used have nearly superseded the riddle.]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. Judg 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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Chicago: Noah Webster Jr., "Riddle," American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2 in An American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2 (New York: S. Converse, 1828), Original Sources, accessed October 7, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=KR3TIR3X1TC7XKK.
MLA: Webster, Noah, Jr. "Riddle." American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2, in An American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2, New York, S. Converse, 1828, Original Sources. 7 Oct. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=KR3TIR3X1TC7XKK.
Harvard: Webster, N, 'Riddle' in American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2. cited in 1828, An American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2, S. Converse, New York. Original Sources, retrieved 7 October 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=KR3TIR3X1TC7XKK.
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