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 The machines now used have nearly superseded the riddle ] RID'DLE, noun [See Read.] 1.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.