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Baffling [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Eluding by shifts, and turns, or by stratagem; defeating; confounding. A baffling wind, among seamen, is one that frequently shifts, from one point to another.

Baffling [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Frustrating; discomfiting; disconcerting; as, baffling currents, winds, tasks.

Baffling [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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