1. Verb
To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.
2. Verb
To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.
3. Verb
To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart.
4. Verb
To practice deceit.
5. Verb
To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds.
6. Noun
A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture.
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