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Shifting :: Shifting (a.) Changing in place, position, or direction; varying; variable; fickle; as, shifting winds; shifting opinions or principles..

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) A change of the position of the hand on the finger board, in playing the violin..

Shifting :: Shifting (a.) Adapted or used for shifting anything.

Thimblerig :: Thimblerig (v. t.) To swindle by means of small cups or thimbles, and a pea or small ball placed under one of them and quickly shifted to another, the victim laying a wager that he knows under which cup it is; hence, to cheat by any trick..

Pouch :: Pouch (n.) A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain, etc., from shifting..

Shunt :: Shunt (v. t.) The shifting of the studs on a projectile from the deep to the shallow sides of the grooves in its discharge from a shunt gun.

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) To change the clothing of; -- used reflexively.

Subterrane :: Subterfuge (n.) That to which one resorts for escape or concealment; an artifice employed to escape censure or the force of an argument, or to justify opinions or conduct; a shift; an evasion..

Parry :: Parry (v. t.) To avoid; to shift or put off; to evade.

Switch :: Switch (v. t.) To shift to another circuit.

Dodge :: Dodge (v. i.) To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start..

Caveating :: Caveating (n.) Shifting the sword from one side of an adversary's sword to the other.

Faineant :: Faineant (a.) Doing nothing; shiftless.

Sloop :: Sloop (n.) A vessel having one mast and fore-and-aft rig, consisting of a boom-and-gaff mainsail, jibs, staysail, and gaff topsail. The typical sloop has a fixed bowsprit, topmast, and standing rigging, while those of a cutter are capable of being readily shifted. The sloop usually carries a centerboard, and depends for stability upon breadth of beam rather than depth of keel. The two types have rapidly approximated since 1880. One radical distinction is that a slop may carry a centerboard. See

Ease :: Ease (n.) To release from pressure or restraint; to move gently; to lift slightly; to shift a little; as, to ease a bar or nut in machinery..

Whiffler :: Whiffler (n.) One who whiffles, or frequently changes his opinion or course; one who uses shifts and evasions in argument; hence, a trifler..

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) To put off or out of the way by some expedient.

Shifting :: Shifting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shif.

Shiftingly :: Shiftingly (adv.) In a shifting manner.

Dodge :: Dodge (v. t.) To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place..

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