To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
To fill with holes like a riddle.
To fill or spread throughout; to pervade.
To put something through a riddle or sieve; to sieve; to sift.
To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question.
A board with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.
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.
An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning.
One of the pair of curtains enclosing an altar on the north and south.
To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander.
To pierce or to wound (somebody) with a (usually pointed) tool or weapon, especially a knife or dagger.
To thrust in a stabbing motion.
To roughen a brick wall with a pick so as to hold plaster.
To cause a sharp, painful sensation (often used with at).
To pierce folded sheets, near their back edges, for the passage of thread or wire.
To recklessly hit with the tip of a (usually pointed) object, such as a weapon or finger (often used with at).
The horizontal or vertical stabilizer of an aircraft.
A wound made by stabbing.
An act of stabbing or thrusting with an object.
Pain inflicted on a person's feelings.
Criticism.
An attempt.
A single staccato chord that adds dramatic impact to a composition.
A bacterial culture made by inoculating a solid medium, such as gelatin, with the puncture of a needle or wire.