n. (Med.) A displacement forward of an organ, esp. the uterus, in such manner that its axis is bent upon itself. T. G. Thomas. AS [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Baffled (-f'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Baffling ] [ Cf. Lowland Scotch bauchle to treat contemptuously, bauch tasteless, abashed, jaded, Icel. bāgr uneasy, poor, or bāgr, n., struggle, bægja to push, treat harshly, OF. beffler, beffer, to mock, deceive, dial. G. bäppe mouth, beffen to bark, chide. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He by the heels him hung upon a tree,
And baffled so, that all which passed by
The picture of his punishment might see. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil. [ 1913 Webster ]

The art that baffles time's tyrannic claim. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart. “A baffled purpose.” De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

A suitable scripture ready to repel and baffle them all. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

Calculations so difficult as to have baffled, until within a . . . recent period, the most enlightened nations. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

The mere intricacy of a question should not baffle us. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Baffling wind (Naut.), one that frequently shifts from one point to another. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To balk; thwart; foil; frustrate; defeat. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To practice deceit. [ Obs. ] Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture. [ R. ] “A baffle to philosophy.” South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Engin.) (a) A deflector, as a plate or wall, so arranged across a furnace or boiler flue as to mingle the hot gases and deflect them against the substance to be heated. (b) A grating or plate across a channel or pipe conveying water, gas, or the like, by which the flow is rendered more uniform in different parts of the cross section of the stream; -- used in measuring the rate of flow, as by means of a weir. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. (Coal Mining) A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine. [ Local, U. S. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

adj. not understanding.
Syn. -- uncomprehending. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. discouraged by failure to accomplish a goal and uncertain how to proceed; -- used especially of feelings of defeat and discouragement.
Syn. -- balked, discomfited, discouraged, frustrated. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The process or act of baffling, or of being baffled; frustration; check.

n. One who, or that which, baffles. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cover as with a muffler; to wrap up. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bemuffled with the externals of religion. Sterne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having no brief; without clients; as, a briefless barrister. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE., from F. buffle. See Buffalo. ] The buffalo. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To puzzle; to be at a loss. [ Obs. ] Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Buffle + head. ] 1. One who has a large head; a heavy, stupid fellow. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

What makes you stare so, bufflehead? Plautus (trans. 1694). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) The buffel duck. See Buffel duck. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a large head, like a buffalo; dull; stupid; blundering. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

So fell this buffle-headed giant. Gayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] (Mil.) A small mine, sometimes formed in the wall or side of an enemy's gallery, to blow in the earth and cut off the retreat of the miners. Farrow.

n. A gang of slaves. Same as Coffle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without chaff. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without a chief or leader. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Circumflected; p. pr. & vb. n. Circumflecting. ] [ L. circumflectere. See Circumflex. ] 1. To bend around. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To mark with the circumflex accent, as a vowel. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Circumflexion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. circumflexus a bending round, fr. circumflectere, circumflexum, to bend or turn about; circum + flectere to bend. See Flexible. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A wave of the voice embracing both a rise and fall or a fall and a rise on the same a syllable. Walker. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A character, or accent, denoting in Greek a rise and of the voice on the same long syllable, marked thus [ ~ or &unr_; ]; and in Latin and some other languages, denoting a long and contracted syllable, marked [ &unr_; or ^ ]. See Accent, n., 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Circumflexed p. pr. & vb. n. Circumflexing ] To mark or pronounce with a circumflex. Walker. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. L. circumflexus, p. p. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Moving or turning round; circuitous. [ R. ] Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) Curved circularly; -- applied to several arteries of the hip and thigh, to arteries, veins, and a nerve of the shoulder, and to other parts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of bending, or causing to assume a curved form. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A winding about; a turning; a circuity; a fold. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Ar. kafala caravan. ] A gang of negro slaves being driven to market. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. contrefleuri. ] (Her.) Counterflory. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To turn aside; to deviate from a right or a horizontal line, or from a proper position, course or direction; to swerve. [ 1913 Webster ]

At some part of the Azores, the needle deflecteth not, but lieth in the true meridian. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

To deflect from the line of truth and reason. Warburton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Deflected; p. pr. & vb. n. Deflecting. ] [ L. deflectere; de- + flectere to bend or turn. See Flexible. ] To cause to turn aside; to bend; as, rays of light are often deflected; to deflect a punch; to deflect criticism by acknowledging a mistake. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

Sitting with their knees deflected under them. Lord (1630). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being deflected. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Turned aside; deviating from a direct line or course. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Bent downward; deflexed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. deflexio, fr. deflectere: cf. F. déflexion. ] 1. The act of turning aside, or state of being turned aside; a turning from a right line or proper course; a bending, esp. downward; deviation. [ 1913 Webster ]

The other leads to the same point, through certain deflections. Lowth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Gunnery) The deviation of a shot or ball from its true course. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Opt.) A deviation of the rays of light toward the surface of an opaque body; inflection; diffraction. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Engin.) The bending which a beam or girder undergoes from its own weight or by reason of a load. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of freeing from inflections. Earle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To free from inflections. [ 1913 Webster ]

Deflectionized languages are said to be analytic. Earle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Causing deflection. [ 1913 Webster ]

Deflective forces, forces that cause a body to deviate from its course. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mech.) That which deflects, as a diaphragm in a furnace, or a cone in a lamp (to deflect and mingle air and gases and help combustion). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Bent abruptly downward. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Deflection. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From L. deflectere, deflexum. See Deflect. ] A bending or turning aside; deflection. Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To reduce the flesh or obesity of. [ Obs. ] Shelton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Duffel. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To clothe with flesh. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Vices which are . . . enfleshed in him. Florio. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., fr. en- (L. in) + fleur flower. ] A process of extracting perfumes by exposing absorbents, as fixed oils or fats, to the exhalations of the flowers. It is used for plants whose volatile oils are too delicate to be separated by distillation. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. To muffle up. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A sporting rifle for use at short ranges, employing a large charge of powder and a light (short) bullet, giving a high initial velocity and consequently a flat trajectory. It is usually of moderately large caliber. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. i. [ Cf. Famble, Maffle. ] To stammer. [ Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See Flay. ] To flay. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He will be fleaed first
And horse collars made of's skin. J. Fletcher. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. fle, flee, AS. fleá, fleáh; akin to D. vtoo, OHG. flōh, G. floh, Icel. flō, Russ. blocha; prob. from the root of E. flee. √84. See Flee. ] (Zool.) An insect belonging to the genus Pulex, of the order Aphaniptera. Fleas are destitute of wings, but have the power of leaping energetically. The bite is poisonous to most persons. The human flea (Pulex irritans), abundant in Europe, is rare in America, where the dog flea (Ctenocephalides canis, formerly Pulex canis) and the smaller cat flea (Ctenocephalides felis) take its place. See Aphaniptera, and Dog flea. See Illustration in Appendix. [ 1913 Webster ]

A flea in the ear, an unwelcome hint or unexpected reply, annoying like a flea; an irritating repulse; as, to put a flea in one's ear; to go away with a flea in one's ear. --
Beach flea,
Black flea, etc. See under Beach, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) One of various plants, supposed to have efficacy in driving away fleas. They belong, for the most part, to the genera Conyza, Erigeron, and Pulicaria. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A small beetle of the family Halticidæ, of many species. They have strong posterior legs and leap like fleas. The turnip flea-beetle (Phyllotreta vittata) and that of the grapevine (Graptodera chalybea) are common injurious species. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The bite of a flea, or the red spot caused by the bite. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A trifling wound or pain, like that of the bite of a flea. Harvey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Bitten by a flea; as, a flea-bitten face. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. White, flecked with minute dots of bay or sorrel; -- said of the color of a horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. same as creaky, 1. [ wns=1 ]
Syn. -- creaky, decrepit, run-down, rundown, woebegone. [ WordNet 1.5 ]