1. (v. t.) To disconcert, frustrate, thwart\; to check by perplexing;

2. (v. t.) To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.

3. (v. t.) To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.

4. (v. i.) To practice deceit.

5. (v. i.) To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds.

6. (n.) A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture.

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