baffle vs fox

baffle

verb
  • To bewilder completely; to confuse or perplex. 

  • To struggle in vain. 

noun
  • An architectural feature designed to confuse enemies or make them vulnerable. 

  • A device used to dampen the effects of such things as sound, light, or fluid. Specifically, a baffle is a surface which is placed inside an open area to inhibit direct motion from one part to another, without preventing motion altogether. 

  • A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine. 

fox

verb
  • To confuse or baffle (someone). 

  • To trick, fool or outwit (someone) by cunning or ingenuity. 

  • To act slyly or craftily. 

  • To make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment. 

  • To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink. 

  • To turn sour; said of beer, etc., when it sours in fermenting. 

  • To discolour paper. Fox marks are spots on paper caused by humidity. (See foxing.) 

  • To repair (boots) with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of. 

noun
  • A wedge driven into the split end of a bolt to tighten it. 

  • A physically attractive man or woman. 

  • A fox terrier. 

  • Air-to-air weapon launched. 

  • A red fox, small carnivore (Vulpes vulpes), related to dogs and wolves, with red or silver fur and a bushy tail. 

  • A small strand of rope made by twisting several rope-yarns together. Used for seizings, mats, sennits, and gaskets. 

  • A cunning person. 

  • A person with reddish brown hair, usually a woman. 

  • A hidden radio transmitter, finding which is the goal of radiosport. 

  • The fourteenth Lenormand card. 

  • The fur of a fox. 

  • The gemmeous dragonet, a fish, Callionymus lyra, so called from its yellow color. 

  • Any of numerous species of small wild canids resembling the red fox. In the taxonomy they form the tribe Vulpini within the family Canidae, consisting of nine genera (see the Wikipedia article on the fox). 

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