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

Quibble :: Quibble (n.) A shift or turn from the point in question; a trifling or evasive distinction; an evasion; a cavil.

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

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

Shifter :: Shifter (n.) A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc..

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

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

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

Tack :: Tack (v. t.) To change the direction of (a vessel) when sailing closehauled, by putting the helm alee and shifting the tacks and sails so that she will proceed to windward nearly at right angles to her former course..

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

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

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) To change the place of; to move or remove from one place to another; as, to shift a burden from one shoulder to another; to shift the blame..

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..

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) To divide; to distribute; to apportion.

Smock :: Smock (n.) A woman's under-garment; a shift; a chemise.

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

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) To change the position of; to alter the bearings of; to turn; as, to shift the helm or sails..

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

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

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

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