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

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

Shiff :: Shiff (v. i.) To slip to one side of a ship, so as to destroy the equilibrum; -- said of ballast or cargo; as, the cargo shifted..

Doubling :: Doubling (n.) A turning and winding; as, the doubling of a hunted hare; shift; trick; artifice..

Shuffle :: Shuffle (v. i.) To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.

Expedient :: Expedient (n.) Means devised in an exigency; shift.

Dodge :: Dodge (v. t.) To evade by a sudden shift of place; to escape by starting aside; as, to dodge a blow aimed or a ball thrown..

Veering :: Veering (a.) Shifting.

Windlass :: Windlass (n.) A winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course; a shift.

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.

Unshiftable :: Unshiftable (a.) Shiftless; helpless.

Baffle :: Baffle (n.) A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture..

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

Jibe :: "Jibe (v. i.) To shift, as the boom of a fore-and-aft sail, from one side of a vessel to the other when the wind is aft or on the quarter. See Gybe..

Sceneshifter :: Sceneshifter (n.) One who moves the scenes in a theater; a sceneman.

Switched :: Switch (n.) A mechanical device for shifting an electric current to another circuit.

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..

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

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

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