What is a defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture. [R.] "A baffle to philosophy." South called?
baffle — A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture. [R.] "A baffle to philosophy." South. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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