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Definition of Baffles
1. baffle [v] - See also: baffle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Baffles
Literary usage of Baffles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Water-supply Engineering: The Designing and Constructing of Water-supply Systems by Amory Prescott Folwell (1917)
"SECTION, SHOWING EFFECT OF BOTTOM baffles AND MIDDLE TOP BAFFLE PLAN, ...
baffles in Sedimentation Basins. the relative amounts of the different sizes of ..."
2. Heroes and Heroines of Fiction: Classical, Mediæval, Legendary; Famous by William Shepard Walsh (1914)
"This is the way in which aristocratic France deals with the American. It baffles
him, confounds him, cuts off his ambition and his ideal, ..."
3. History of the Conquest of England by the Normans: Its Causes, and Its by Augustin Thierry (1847)
"... William—Convocation of the states of Normandy—William baffles this opposition—
Grand military preparations—Enrolment of men from all countries— William ..."
4. Heroes and Heroines of Fiction: Modern Prose and Poetry by William Shepard Walsh (1914)
"It baffles him, confounds him, cuts off his ambition and his ideal, and makes an
end of what was to have been so good—his future, the reward of his ..."
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