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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

To be bewildered, or perplexed.

puzzling

fool, that heeds nothing.

L’Estrange.

To work, as at a puzzle;

as, to

puzzle

over a problem

Verb.

[from the root of pose, which see.]

To perplex; to embarrass; to put to a stand; to gravel.

A shrewd disputant in those points, is dexterous in puzzling others.

He is perpetually puzzled and perplexed amidst his own blunders.

To make intricate; to entangle.

The ways of heaven are dark and intricate,

Puzzl'd in mazes and perplex'd with error.

Verb.

To be bewildered; to be awkward.

Noun.

Perplexity; embarrassment.