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Fend :: Fend (v. i.) To act on the defensive, or in opposition; to resist; to parry; to shift off..

Baffle :: Baffle (v. t.) To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) The act of shifting.

Apology :: Apology (n.) Anything provided as a substitute; a makeshift.

Makeshift :: Makeshift (n.) That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient.

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

Quirk :: Quirk (n.) A sudden turn; a starting from the point or line; hence, an artful evasion or subterfuge; a shift; a quibble; as, the quirks of a pettifogger..

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

Shiftable :: Shiftable (a.) Admitting of being shifted.

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

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

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

Shirk :: Shirk (v. i.) To live by shifts and fraud; to shark.

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

Shack :: Shack (n.) A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp..

Prevaricate :: Prevaricate (v. i.) To shift or turn from one side to the other, from the direct course, or from truth; to speak with equivocation; to shuffle; to quibble; as, he prevaricates in his statement..

Mucker :: Mucker (v. t.) To scrape together, as money, by mean labor or shifts..

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

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

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

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