▸ noun: A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature. ▸ noun: An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning. ▸ verb: To speak ambiguously or enigmatically. ▸ verb: (transitive) To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question. ▸ noun: 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. ▸ noun: A board with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it. ▸ verb: To put something through a riddle or sieve; to sieve; to sift. ▸ verb: To fill with holes like a riddle. ▸ verb: (figuratively) To fill or spread throughout; to pervade (with something destructive or weakening). ▸ noun: (obsolete) A curtain; bedcurtain. ▸ noun: (religious) One of the pair of curtains enclosing an altar on the north and south. ▸ verb: (transitive, obsolete) To plait. ▸ noun: A surname. ▸ noun: A city in Douglas County, Oregon, United States.
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