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

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

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

Put-off :: Put-off (n.) A shift for evasion or delay; an evasion; an excuse.

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

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

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.

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..

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

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

Parry :: Parry (v. t.) To avoid; to shift or put off; to evade.

Tack :: Tack (v. i.) To change the direction of a vessel by shifting the position of the helm and sails; also (as said of a vessel), to have her direction changed through the shifting of the helm and sails. See Tack, v. t., 4..

Shifter :: Shifter (n.) An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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