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To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel.

One who riddles (grain, sand, etc.).

An iron plate or pan used for cooking cakes.

A cake baked or fried on a griddle, esp. a thin batter cake, as of buckwheat or common flour.

The longtailed titmouse. [Prov. Eng.]

The jacksnipe. [Local, U.S.]

To read the riddle of; to solve or explain; as, to unriddle an enigma or a mystery. Macaulay. And where you can't unriddle, learn to trust. Parnell.

One who unriddles. Lovelace.

To tell, declare, explain, or interpret; to divine; to guess; as, to aread a riddle or a dream. [Obs.] Therefore more plain aread this doubtful case. Spenser.

To solve; to clear up. [Obs.] Any child might soon be able to assoil this riddle. Bp. Jewel.

lat and roundish, commonly made of oatmeal or barley meal and baked on an iron plate, or griddle; -- used in Scotland and the northern counties of England. Jamieson. Bannock fluke, the turbot. [Scot.]

The triangular seed used, when ground, for griddle cakes, etc.

A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes.

A kind of griddlecake of unleavened bread, used among the natives of India. [Anglo-Indian]

A kind of riddle based upon some fanciful or fantastic resemblance between things quite unlike; a puzzling question, of which the answer is or involves a pun. Or pun ambiguous, or conundrum quaint. J. Philips.

To cause to pass through a sieve or riddle; to sift.

A kind of large. thin muffin or cake, light and spongy, and cooked on a griddle or spider.

A dark, obscure, or inexplicable saying; a riddle; a statement, the hidden meaning of which is to be discovered or guessed. A custom was among the ancients of proposing an enigma at festivals. Pope.

To make, or talk in, enigmas; to deal in riddles.

scurity; to interpret; as, to expound a text of Scripture, a law, a word, a meaning, or a riddle. Expound this matter more fully to me. Bunyan.