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Palter :: Palter (v. i.) To act in insincere or deceitful manner; to play false; to equivocate; to shift; to dodge; to trifle.

Chicane :: Chicane (n.) To use shifts, cavils, or artifices..

Roustabout :: Roustabout (n.) A laborer, especially a deck hand, on a river steamboat, who moves the cargo, loads and unloads wood, and the like; in an opprobrious sense, a shiftless vagrant who lives by chance jobs..

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) Something frequently shifted; especially, a woman's under-garment; a chemise..

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

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

Scene :: Scene (n.) The decorations and fittings of a stage, representing the place in which the action is supposed to go on; one of the slides, or other devices, used to give an appearance of reality to the action of a play; as, to paint scenes; to shift the scenes; to go behind the scenes..

Machinist :: Machinist (n.) A person employed to shift scenery in a theater.

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints..

Shifted :: Shifted (imp. & p. p.) of Shif.

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

Shifty :: Shifty (a.) Full of, or ready with, shifts; fertile in expedients or contrivance..

Prog :: Prog (v. i.) To wander about and beg; to seek food or other supplies by low arts; to seek for advantage by mean shift or tricks.

Jibe :: "Jibe (v. i.) To change a ship's course so as to cause a shifting of the boom. See Jibe, v. t., and Gybe..

Veer :: Veer (v. i.) To change direction; to turn; to shift; as, wind veers to the west or north..

Shirk :: Shirk (n.) One who lives by shifts and tricks; one who avoids the performance of duty or labor.

Shifter :: Shifter (n.) One who, or that which, shifts; one who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener..

Tergiversation :: Tergiversation (n.) The act of tergiversating; a shifting; shift; subterfuge; evasion.

Variable :: Variable (n.) A shifting wind, or one that varies in force..

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

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