Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RID'DLE, n.² [Sax. rædelse; D. raadzel; G. räthsel; from Sax. ræden, D. raaden, G. rathen, to counsel or advise, also to guess. See Read.]

1. An enigma; something proposed for conjecture, or that is to be solved by conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition. – Judges xiv. Milton.
2. Any thing ambiguous or puzzling. – Hudibras.