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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 The machines now used have nearly superseded the riddle.]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 April 26, 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. 26 Apr. 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 26 April 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=KR3TIR3X1TC7XKK.
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