Vocabulary : Baff to Bag

Baff : A blow; a stroke. ;; To strike; to beat; to make a baff. ;; A blow; stroke; thud ;; a stroke in which the sole of the club hits the ground and drives the ball aloft.
Baffle : To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight. ;; To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil. ;; To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart. ;; To practice deceit. ;; To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds. ;; A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture. ;; A deflector, as a plate or wall, so arranged across a furnace or boiler flue as to mingle the hot gases and deflect them against the substance to be heated. ;; A grating or plate across a channel or pipe conveying water, gas, or the like, by which the flow is rendered more uniform in different parts of the cross section of the stream; -- used in measuring the rate of flow, as by means of a weir. ;; A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine.
Baffled : of Baffle
Bafflement : The process or act of baffling, or of being baffled; frustration; check.
Baffler : One who, or that which, baffles.
Baffling : of Baffle ;; Frustrating; discomfiting; disconcerting; as, baffling currents, winds, tasks.
Baffy : A short wooden club having a deeply concave face, seldom used.
Baft : Same as Bafta.
Bafta : A coarse stuff, usually of cotton, originally made in India. Also, an imitation of this fabric made for export.
Bag : A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, a bag of meal or of money. ;; A sac, or dependent gland, in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance; as, the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents; the bag of a cow. ;; A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament. ;; The quantity of game bagged. ;; A certain quantity of a commodity, such as it is customary to carry to market in a sack; as, a bag of pepper or hops; a bag of coffee. ;; To put into a bag; as, to bag hops. ;; To seize, capture, or entrap; as, to bag an army; to bag game. ;; To furnish or load with a bag or with a well filled bag. ;; To swell or hang down like a full bag; as, the skin bags from containing morbid matter. ;; To swell with arrogance. ;; To become pregnant.
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