Noah Webster
Baffetas
BAF'FETAS
BAF'FLE, verb transitive To mock or elude by artifice; to elude by shifts and turns; hence to defeat, or confound; as, to baffle the designs of an enemy.
Fashionable follies baffle argument.
BAF'FLE, verb intransitive To practice deceit.
BAF'FLE, noun A defeat by artifice, shifts and turns.