noun

• (archaic) Something made with marvellous skill; something of ingenious construction.

verb

• (transitive) To perplex, confuse, or mystify; to cause (someone) to be faced with a mystery, without answers or an explanation.
  "Mens daily occaſions for themſelves or friends, and the neceſities of common life, require the doing of a thouſand things vvithin the compaſs of a fevv dayes, for vvhich it vvould puzzle the beſt Textman that liveth; readily to bethink himself of a ſentence in the Bible, clear enough to ſatisfie a ſcrupulous conſcience of the lavvfulneſs and expediency of vvhat he is about to do; […]"
• (intransitive) To think long and carefully in bewilderment.
  "We puzzled over the curious-shaped lock, but were unable to discover how the key should be inserted."
• (transitive) To make intricate or difficult to resolve; to entangle.
  "The Ways of Heav’n are dark and intricate, / Puzzled in Mazes, and perplext with Errors; / Our Underſtanding traces ’em in vain, / Loſt and bewilder’d in the fruitleſs Search; […]"