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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Modulation :: Modulation (n.) A change of key, whether transient, or until the music becomes established in the new key; a shifting of the tonality of a piece, so that the harmonies all center upon a new keynote or tonic; the art of transition out of the original key into one nearly related, and so on, it may be, by successive changes, into a key quite remote. There are also sudden and unprepared modulations..

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

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 divide; to distribute; to apportion.

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

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

Chemise :: Chemise (n.) A shift, or undergarment, worn by women..

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