riddle

-1 n. விடுகதை, புதிர், சொற்பொறி, கடுவினா, புதிரான ஆள், திகைப்பளிக்குஞ் செய்தி, புரியாத பொருள், (வினை) புதிர்போடு, புதிராகப்பேசு, விடுகதைக்கு விடைகூறு, புதிர்விடுவி.-2 n. சல்லடை, கூலம்-சரளைக்கல்-கரித்தூள் முதலியன சலிப்பதற்கானபெரும்படி அரிதட்டு, நிமிர்ப்புத்தட்டம்,. கம்பியை நேராக்குவதற்கான ஊசிகள் நிரம்பிய தட்டம், (வினை)அரித்தெடு, சல்லடையிலிட்டுச் சலி, மெய்ம்மைதேர், சோதித்தறி, தவறென்று எண்பி, பிரித்தெடு, கப்பல்-சோதித்த

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Rid"dle, n. Etym: [OE. ridil, AS. hridder; akin to G. reiter, L. cribrum, and to Gr. rein clean. See Crisis, Certain.] 1. A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand. 2. A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it. Rid"dle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Riddled; p. pr. & vb. n. Riddling.] 1. To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel. 2. To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot. Rid"dle, n. Etym: [For riddels, s being misunderstood as the plural ending; OE. ridels, redels. AS. rraadsel, G. räthsel; fr. AS. r to counsel or advise, also, to guess. sq. root116. Cf. Read.] Defn: Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling. To wring from me, and tell to them, my secret, That solved the riddle which I had proposed. Milton. 'T was a strange riddle of a lady. Hudibras. Rid"dle, v. t. Defn: To explain; to solve; to unriddle. Riddle me this, and guess him if you can. Dryden. Rid"dle, v. i. Defn: To speak ambiguously or enigmatically. "Lysander riddels very prettily." Shak. Rid"dle, n. Etym: [OE. ridil, AS. hridder; akin to G. reiter, L. cribrum, and to Gr. rein clean. See Crisis, Certain.] 1. A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand. 2. A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it. Rid"dle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Riddled; p. pr. & vb. n. Riddling.] 1. To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel. 2. To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot. Rid"dle, n. Etym: [For riddels, s being misunderstood as the plural ending; OE. ridels, redels. AS. rraadsel, G. räthsel; fr. AS. r to counsel or advise, also, to guess. sq. root116. Cf. Read.] Defn: Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling. To wring from me, and tell to them, my secret, That solved the riddle which I had proposed. Milton. 'T was a strange riddle of a lady. Hudibras. Rid"dle, v. t. Defn: To explain; to solve; to unriddle. Riddle me this, and guess him if you can. Dryden. Rid"dle, v. i. Defn: To speak ambiguously or enigmatically. "Lysander riddels very prettily." Shak.