What is to check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil. The art that baffles time's tyrannic claim. Cowper called?
baffle — To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil. The art that baffles time's tyrannic claim. Cowper. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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