The art that baffles time's tyrannic claim.
Cowper.
3. To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart. "A baffled purpose." De Quincey.
A suitable scripture ready to repel and baffle them all.
South.
Calculations so difficult as to have baffled, until within a . . . recent period, the most enlightened nations.
Prescott.
The mere intricacy of a question should not baffle us.
Locke.
Baffling wind (Naut.), one that frequently shifts from one point to another.
Syn. -- To balk; thwart; foil; frustrate; defeat.
Baf"fle, v. i. 1. To practice deceit. [Obs.] Barrow.