Riddle: alternatives and connections

To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze.

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To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.

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To lead into perplexity or confusion, as for want of a plain path; to perplex with mazes; or in general, to perplex or confuse greatly.

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To share in common; to participate in.

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To bewilder or confuse someone

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Jet, the mineral.

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Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand.

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To communicate mutually; to hold mutual communication.

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To draw or pass the tongue over; as, a dog licks his master's hand.

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To involve in mystery; to make obscure or difficult to understand; as, to mystify a passage of Scripture.

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A state or condition which daffles reason or confounds judgment; insuperable difficalty; inability to proceed or decide; puzzle; quandary.

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To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to effect an entrance into; to pierce; as, light penetrates darkness.

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To bore through; to pierce through with a pointed instrument; to make a hole or holes through by boring or piercing; to pierce or penetrate the surfa…

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To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one with doubts.

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To thrust into, penetrate, or transfix, with a pointed instrument.

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Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.

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A question proposed for solution; a matter stated for examination or proof; hence, a matter difficult of solution or settlement; a doubtful case; a q…

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Something which perplexes or embarrasses; especially, a toy or a problem contrived for testing ingenuity; also, something exhibiting marvelous skill…

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Anything that separates or cuts off inconvenience, injury, or danger; that which shelters or conceals from view; a shield or protection; as, a fire s…

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A utensil for separating the finer and coarser parts of a pulverized or granulated substance from each other. It consist of a vessel, usually shallow…

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To separate with a sieve, as the fine part of a substance from the coarse; as, to sift meal or flour; to sift powder; to sift sand or lime.

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To explain; to resolve; to unfold; to clear up (what is obscure or difficult to be understood); to work out to a result or conclusion; as, to solve a…

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A small shoot, or branch, separated, as by a cutting, from a tree or shrub; also, any stem or branch of a tree, of any size, cut for fuel or timber.

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Race; stock; generation; descent; family.

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To make stupid; to make dull; to blunt the faculty of perception or understanding in; to deprive of sensibility; to make torpid.

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To to/s back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.

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Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…

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A kind of riddle based upon some fanciful or fantastic resemblance between things quite unlike; a puzzling question, of which the answer is or involv…

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To pour out and cause to spread, as a fluid; to cause to flow on all sides; to send out, or extend, in all directions; to spread; to circulate; to di…

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A dark, obscure, or inexplicable saying; a riddle; a statement, the hidden meaning of which is to be discovered or guessed.

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To tinge deeply; to dye; to cause to absorb; as, clothes thoroughly imbued with black.

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To penetrate between or within; to penetrate mutually.

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To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to effect an entrance into; to pierce; as, light penetrates darkness.

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To pass through the pores or interstices of; to penetrate and pass through without causing rupture or displacement; -- applied especially to fluids w…

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To pass or flow through, as an aperture, pore, or interstice; to permeate.

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Anything that separates or cuts off inconvenience, injury, or danger; that which shelters or conceals from view; a shield or protection; as, a fire s…

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