Part 861

<h1>B\'91nosome</h1> <Xpage=111>

<hw>B\'91"no*some</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ to walk + <ets>-some</ets> body.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>The thorax of Arthropods.</def>

<i>Packard.</i>

<h1>Baff</h1> <Xpage=111>

<hw>Baff</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A blow; a stroke.</def> <mark>[Scot.]</mark>

<i>H. Miller.</i>

<h1>Baffle</h1> <Xpage=111>

<hw>Baf"fle</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Baffled</er> (<?/); <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Baffling</er> <tt>(<?/)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Cf. Lowland Scotch <ets>bauchle</ets> to treat contemptuously, <ets>bauch</ets> tasteless, abashed, jaded, Icel. <ets>b\'begr</ets> uneasy, poor, or <ets>b\'begr</ets>, n., struggle, <ets>b\'91gja</ets> to push, treat harshly, OF. <ets>beffler</ets>, <ets>beffer</ets>, to mock, deceive, dial. G. <ets>b\'84ppe</ets> mouth, <ets>beffen</ets> to bark, chide.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>He by the heels him hung upon a tree, And <b>baffled</b> so, that all which passed by The picture of his punishment might see. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.</def>

<blockquote>The art that <b>baffles</b> time's tyrannic claim. <i>Cowper.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart.</def> "A <i>baffled</i> purpose."

<i>De Quincey.</i>

<blockquote>A suitable scripture ready to repel and <b>baffle</b> them all. <i>South.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Calculations so difficult as to have <b>baffled</b>, until within a . . . recent period, the most enlightened nations. <i>Prescott.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The mere intricacy of a question should not <b>baffle</b> us. <i>Locke.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Baffling wind</col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>one that frequently shifts from one point to another.</cd></cs>

<syn>Syn. -- To balk; thwart; foil; frustrate; defeat.</syn>

<h1>Baffle</h1> <Xpage=111>

<hw>Baf"fle</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To practice deceit.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Barrow.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To struggle against in vain; <as>as, a ship <ex>baffles</ex> with the winds</as>.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Baffle</h1> <Xpage=111>

<hw>Baf"fle</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark> "A <i>baffle</i> to philosophy."

<i>South.</i>

<h1>Bafflement</h1> <Xpage=111>

<hw>Baf"fle*ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The process or act of baffling, or of being baffled; frustration; check.</def>