Baffle

1. n. A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture.
2. v. t. To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.
3. v. t. To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.
4. v. t. To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart.
5. v. i. To practice deceit.
6. v. i. To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.