2. Verb. (third-person singular of puzzle) ¹
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Definition of Puzzles
1. puzzle [v] - See also: puzzle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Puzzles
Literary usage of Puzzles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Comic History of the United States: From a Period Prior to the Discovery by John D. Sherwood (1870)
"puzzles about Hemp and Paper. — Weak Brains at rest. — The Return of the Holders
of Sabres ... puzzles solved. — Vetoing made easy. — The New Orleans Riots. ..."
2. A Common-place Book of the Fifteenth Century: Containing a Religious Play by Lucy Toulmin Smith, Caroline Margaret Kerrison (1886)
"SOME OLD puzzles AND SAYINGS. Fos. 1, 1 v°. (see fac-simile. ... It will be
observed that the final result of all the five puzzles is highly uncomplimentary ..."
3. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1882)
"entertaining and instructive reading, such as short stories, poems, rhymes,
puzzles, articles on embroidery, and other forms of needlework, and soon. ..."
4. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"puzzles. From Samson's riddle, 1141 BC, to the fifteen or gem puzzle of AD 1880,
all nations and ages have put forth inventions to test the ..."
5. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1920)
"Drawings, Photographs, and puzzles. Illustrated 1142 The Letter-Box 1150 The
Riddle-Box 1151 St. Nicholas Stamp Page. Conducted by Samuel R. Simmons ..."
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