transitive. To ascertain by calculation or mathematical reasoning; to determine (the solution of a problem).

To unloose the knot of (difficulty or doubt); to clear up, solve, or resolve; = absolve, v. 3. Obsolete. (In this sense frequently soyle, soil in…

To resolve, clear up, expound, or explain; to answer (a question).

To find out or discover (as the solution of a problem or riddle); to come to understand. Obsolete.

transitive. To discover by attention, scrutiny, study, etc.; to solve, explain. Also: to devise, invent. Obsolete.

transitive. To answer (a question); to solve (a problem of any kind); to determine, settle, or decide upon (a point or matter regarding which…

transitive. To solve, resolve, or conclude; to explain; to clear up. Obsolete.

transitive. To solve, explain, clear up.

To explain, clear up, resolve, answer. Also reflexive.

To solve, resolve, explain (a question, doubt, etc.). archaic.

transitive. To find out or ascertain by calculation or experiment; to obtain as a result of arithmetical or other processes.

To clear up, explain, account for (a difficulty, point in dispute, etc.); to overcome (a doubt, objection); to harmonize or reconcile (a discrepancy).

To work out or get to the bottom of (a matter, laboriously), to ‘hammer’ out.

Similarly with out. Obsolete.

transitive. To solve (a difficulty), unravel, get to the bottom of (something complicated or mysterious). Cf. sense 2. Obsolete.

figurative. To solve or clear away (a difficulty). Frequently with knot in figurative sense (cf. knot, n.1 10).

To solve, explain. Obsolete.

transitive. To solve.

transitive. (from figurative use of the phrase to crack a nut: see nut, n.1) To puzzle out, make out, solve, discuss.

(un-, prefix2 affix 1b.)

transitive. To puzzle out. Now rare.

transitive. to puzzle out: to come to understand or perceive, esp. through patience or ingenuity; to work out (an answer, solution, etc.).

transitive. To solve (a problem or question) by calculation or arithmetic; to calculate (an amount, etc.); (more generally) to find the solution to…

intransitive. Originally U.S. = to get round —— at phrasal verbs 2.

to dope out. To work out; to get hold of.

transferred. To solve (a problem or puzzle); to overcome, transcend (a difficulty). Chiefly U.S.

transitive. colloquial. To succeed in solving or finishing (a puzzle, game, etc.); (also) to untangle (something knotted). Now rare.