Baffle

·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.