'Riddle' definitions:
Definition of 'riddle'
(from WordNet)
noun
noun
A coarse sieve (as for gravel)
verb
Pierce with many holes; "The bullets riddled his body"
verb
Set a difficult problem or riddle; "riddle me a riddle"
verb
Separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff [syn: riddle, screen]
verb
Spread or diffuse through; "An atmosphere of distrust has permeated this administration"; "music penetrated the entire building"; "His campaign was riddled with accusations and personal attacks" [syn: permeate, pervade, penetrate, interpenetrate, diffuse, imbue, riddle]
verb
Speak in riddles
verb
Explain a riddle
Definition of 'Riddle'
From: GCIDE
- Riddle \Rid"dle\, v. i. To speak ambiguously or enigmatically. "Lysander riddles very prettily." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Riddle'
From: GCIDE
- Riddle \Rid"dle\, v. t. To explain; to solve; to unriddle. [1913 Webster]
- Riddle me this, and guess him if you can. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Riddle'
From: GCIDE
- Riddle \Rid"dle\ (r[i^]d"d'l), n. [OE. ridil, AS. hridder; akin to G. reiter, L. cribrum, and to Gr. kri`nein to distinguish, separate, and G. rein clean. See Crisis, Certain.]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Riddle'
From: GCIDE
- Riddle \Rid"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Riddled (r[i^]d"d'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Riddling (r[i^]d"dl[i^]ng).]
- 1. To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Riddle'
From: GCIDE
- Riddle \Rid"dle\, n. [For riddels, s being misunderstood as the plural ending; OE. ridels, redels. AS. r[=ae]dels; akin to D. raadsel, G. r[aum]thsel; fr. AS. r[=ae]dan to counsel or advise, also, to guess. [root]116. Cf. Read.] Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling. [1913 Webster]
- To wring from me, and tell to them, my secret, That solved the riddle which I had proposed. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 'T was a strange riddle of a lady. --Hudibras. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'riddle'
From: Easton
- Riddle (Heb. hodah). The oldest and, strictly speaking, the only example of a riddle was that propounded by Samson (Judg. 14:12-18). The parabolic prophecy in Ezek. 17:2-18 is there called a "riddle." It was rather, however, an allegory. The word "darkly" in 1 Cor. 13:12 is the rendering of the Greek enigma; marg., "in a riddle."
Synonyms of 'riddle'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- anagram,
- answer,
- arabesque,
- assort,
- auger,
- babble,
- baffle,
- bafflement,
- basketry,
- basketwork,
- be beyond one,
- be Greek to,
- be too deep,
- beat one,
- bewilderment,
- bite,
- blaze,
- blaze a trail,
- blemish,
- blotch,
- blow to pieces,
- blow up,
- bolt,
- bolter,
- bore,
- bother,
- bottom,
- brain,
- brand,
- bring down,
- broach,
- burn to death,
- cancellation,
- categorize,
- chalk,
- chalk up,
- charade,
- charge,
- check,
- check off,
- Chinese puzzle,
- cicatrize,
- clarifier,
- classify,
- clear up,
- cock,
- colander,
- collate,
- confoundment,
- confusion,
- conundrum,
- cordon,
- cordon off,
- countersink,
- crack,
- cradle,
- cribble,
- cribriformity,
- cribrosity,
- cross-hatching,
- crossing-out,
- cull out,
- cut down,
- cut to pieces,
- dapple,
- dark horse,
- dash,
- deal a deathblow,
- debug,
- decipher,
- decode,
- define,
- delimit,
- demarcate,
- detonate,
- dilemma,
- discharge,
- discolor,
- discomposure,
- disconcert,
- disconcertedness,
- disconcertion,
- disconcertment,
- disentangle,
- disintegrate,
- disturbance,
- divide,
- divine,
- do,
- dope,
- dope out,
- dot,
- drill,
- drop,
- eject,
- embarrassment,
- empierce,
- engrave,
- enigma,
- escape one,
- explain,
- fathom,
- fell,
- figure out,
- filigree,
- fill,
- filter,
- find out,
- find the answer,
- find the solution,
- fire,
- fire off,
- fix,
- fleck,
- frag,
- freckle,
- fret,
- fretwork,
- frontier,
- frontiers of knowledge,
- gash,
- get,
- get right,
- ghettoize,
- gibber,
- gin,
- gore,
- gouge,
- gouge out,
- gradate,
- grade,
- grate,
- grating,
- grid,
- gridiron,
- grille,
- grillwork,
- group,
- guess,
- guess right,
- gun,
- gun down,
- gun for,
- hachure,
- hatch,
- hatching,
- have it,
- hit,
- hit it,
- hole,
- honeycomb,
- impale,
- impress,
- imprint,
- incinerate,
- infect,
- infest,
- insulate,
- interlacement,
- interpret,
- intertexture,
- intertwinement,
- isolate,
- jam,
- jugulate,
- keep apart,
- keep aside,
- lace,
- lacery,
- lacework,
- lacing,
- lance,
- lapidate,
- lattice,
- latticework,
- lay aside,
- lay low,
- let fly,
- let off,
- line,
- lixiviator,
- load,
- logogriph,
- lose one,
- make a mark,
- make out,
- mark,
- mark off,
- mark out,
- matter of ignorance,
- mesh,
- meshes,
- meshwork,
- mottle,
- mystery,
- mystification,
- n,
- need explanation,
- needle,
- net,
- netting,
- network,
- nick,
- nonplus,
- not make sense,
- not penetrate,
- notch,
- open the lock,
- pass comprehension,
- pelt,
- pencil,
- penetrate,
- pepper,
- percolator,
- perforate,
- permeate,
- perplex,
- perplexity,
- perturbation,
- pervade,
- pick off,
- pick out,
- pickle,
- pierce,
- pink,
- pistol,
- plexure,
- plexus,
- plight,
- plug,
- plumb,
- point,
- poleax,
- porosity,
- porousness,
- poser,
- pot,
- pother,
- potshoot,
- potshot,
- predicament,
- prick,
- prime,
- print,
- problem,
- psych,
- psych out,
- punch,
- punctuate,
- puncture,
- purifier,
- put aside,
- puzzle,
- puzzle out,
- puzzlement,
- quandary,
- quarantine,
- question,
- raddle,
- rank,
- ravel,
- ravel out,
- ream,
- ream out,
- rebus,
- refiner,
- refinery,
- resolve,
- reticle,
- reticulation,
- reticule,
- reticulum,
- rocker,
- run through,
- scar,
- scarify,
- score,
- scotch,
- scrape,
- scratch,
- screen,
- screening,
- seal,
- sealed book,
- seam,
- seclude,
- segregate,
- separate,
- set apart,
- set aside,
- shoot,
- shoot at,
- shoot down,
- shoot to death,
- shotgun,
- sieve,
- sievelikeness,
- sift,
- sifter,
- silence,
- size,
- skewer,
- snipe,
- solve,
- sort,
- sort out,
- sorter,
- speak in tongues,
- spear,
- speck,
- speckle,
- spike,
- spit,
- splotch,
- sponge,
- spot,
- spread,
- stab,
- stab to death,
- stain,
- stamp,
- stew,
- stick,
- stigmatize,
- stone,
- stone to death,
- strainer,
- streak,
- striate,
- strike,
- strike dead,
- stripe,
- subordinate,
- take a potshot,
- talk double Dutch,
- tap,
- tattoo,
- terra incognita,
- texture,
- the incalculable,
- the strange,
- the unfamiliar,
- the unknowable,
- the unknown,
- thrash,
- thresh,
- tick,
- tick off,
- tissue,
- torpedo,
- trace,
- tracery,
- transfix,
- transpierce,
- trellis,
- trelliswork,
- trepan,
- trephine,
- unassuredness,
- underline,
- underscore,
- undo,
- unexplored ground,
- unexplored territory,
- unknown quantity,
- unlock,
- unravel,
- unriddle,
- unscramble,
- untangle,
- untwist,
- unweave,
- upset,
- vaporize,
- wattle,
- weave,
- weaving,
- web,
- webbing,
- webwork,
- weft,
- why,
- wicker,
- wickerwork,
- winnow,
- winnowing basket,
- winnowing fan,
- winnowing machine,
- work,
- work out,
- x,
- z
Riddle, OR -- U.S. city in Oregon
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Riddle, OR -- U.S. city in Oregon
Population (2000) :
1014
Housing Units (2000) :
406
Land area (2000) :
0.667267 sq. miles (1.728214 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
0.667267 sq. miles (1.728214 sq. km)
FIPS code :
61850
Located within :
Oregon (OR), FIPS 41
Location :
42.951605 N, 123.365052 W
ZIP Codes (1990) :
97469
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.