Note 963 — ACT I. SCENE I.
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baffle] Meant formerly to treat with insult, or mockery, or contempt. “Our names should be baffuld on euery booke-sellers stall.” Nash’s Pierce Pennilesse, sig. D 4, ed. 1595. “When he had baffuld mee in print throughout England.” Nash’s Haue with you to Saffron-walden, sig. T 2, 1596.
“Prithee, good Fido, goe and baffull him:
Put an affront vpon him.”
Marmyon’s Fine Companion, sig. F, 1633.