·vi To practice deceit.
II. Baffle ·noun A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture.
III. Baffle ·vi To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds.
IV. Baffle ·vt To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.
V. Baffle ·add. ·noun A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine.
VI. Baffle ·vt To check by shifts and turns; to
Elude; to
Foil.
VII. Baffle ·vt To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to
Thwart.
VIII. Baffle ·add. ·noun 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.
IX. Baffle ·add. ·noun 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.