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Tuesday, January 21st, 2025
the Second Week after Epiphany
the Second Week after Epiphany
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RID'DLE, n. See Cradle.
An instrument for cleaning grain, being a large sieve with a perforated button, which permits the grain to pass through it, but retains the chaff.
RID'DLE, To separate, as grain from the chaff with a riddle as, to riddle wheat. Note. The machines now used have nearly superseded the riddle.
RID'DLE, n. See Read.
1. An enigma something proposed for conjecture, or that is to be solved by conjecture a puzzling question an ambiguous proposition. Judges 14 .
2. Any thing ambiguous or puzzling.
RID'DLE, To solve to explain but we generally use unriddle, which is more proper.
Riddle me this, and guess him if you can.
RID'DLE, To speak ambiguously, obscurely or enigmatically.
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Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
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Entry for 'Riddle'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/r/riddle.html.
Entry for 'Riddle'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/r/riddle.html.
