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.

t To separate, as grain from the chaff with a riddle; as, to riddle wheat.

An enigma; something proposed for conjecture, or that is to be solved by conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition. Judges 14:12-19.

Any thing ambiguous or puzzling.

To solve; to explain; but we generally use unriddle, which is more proper. Riddle me this, and guess him if you can.

To speak ambiguously, obscurely or enigmatically.