Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
RIDDLES
Noun
riddles
plural of riddle
Verb
riddles
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of riddle
Anagrams
• dreidls, lidders, slidder
Proper noun
Riddles
A surname.
Anagrams
• dreidls, lidders, slidder
Source: Wiktionary
RIDDLE
Rid"dle, n. Etym: [OE. ridil, AS. hridder; akin to G. reiter, L. cribrum, and to Gr. rein clean. See Crisis, Certain.]
1. 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.
2. A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
Rid"dle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Riddled; p. pr. & vb. n. Riddling.]
1. To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel.
2. To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot.
Rid"dle, n. Etym: [For riddels, s being misunderstood as the plural ending; OE. ridels, redels. AS. rraadsel, G. räthsel; fr. AS. r to counsel or advise, also, to guess. sq. root116. Cf. Read.]
Definition: Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling. To wring from me, and tell to them, my secret, That solved the riddle which I had proposed. Milton. 'T was a strange riddle of a lady. Hudibras.
Rid"dle, v. t.
Definition: To explain; to solve; to unriddle. Riddle me this, and guess him if you can. Dryden.
Rid"dle, v. i.
Definition: To speak ambiguously or enigmatically. "Lysander riddels very prettily." Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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