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

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) To exchange for another of the same class; to remove and to put some similar thing in its place; to change; as, to shift the clothes; to shift the scenes..

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

Gybe :: Gybe (v. t. & i.) To shift from one side of a vessel to the other; -- said of the boom of a fore-and-aft sail when the vessel is steered off the wind until the sail fills on the opposite side.

Shuffle :: Shuffle (v. i.) To use arts or expedients; to make shift.

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.

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

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

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

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..

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

Roustabout :: Roustabout (n.) A laborer, especially a deck hand, on a river steamboat, who moves the cargo, loads and unloads wood, and the like; in an opprobrious sense, a shiftless vagrant who lives by chance jobs..

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.

Chop :: Chop (v. i.) To vary or shift suddenly; as, the wind chops about..

Unshiftable :: Unshiftable (a.) That may /ot be shifted.

Core :: Core (n.) A miner's underground working time or shift.

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

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

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..

Shiftiness :: Shiftiness (n.) The quality or state of being shifty.

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