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▸ noun:  A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.
▸ noun:  An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning.
▸ verb:  To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question.
▸ noun:  A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
▸ noun:  A board with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
▸ verb:  To put something through a riddle or sieve; to sieve; to sift.
▸ verb:  To fill with holes like a riddle.
▸ verb:  To fill or spread throughout; to pervade.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) A curtain; bedcurtain.
▸ noun:  (religious) One of the pair of curtains enclosing an altar on the north and south.
▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To plait.
▸ noun:  A surname.
▸ noun:  A city in Douglas County, Oregon, United States.

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