riddle
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1. riddle - Noun
2. riddle - Verb
3. Riddle - Proper noun
Meaning
A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel.
To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot.
Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling.
To explain; to solve; to unriddle.
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I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
Riddle of destiny, who can show; What thy short visit meant, or know; What thy errand here below.
It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems.
A riddle made by God has no solution.
Put a riddle to a fool a clever person will solve it.