Available Definitions:
1) a. - Frustrating; discomfiting; disconcerting; as, baffling currents, winds, tasks.
2) v. t. - To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.
3) v. t. - To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart.
4) v. i. - To practice deceit.
5) v. i. - To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds.
6) n. - A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture.