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Go-by :: Go-by (n.) A passing without notice; intentional neglect; thrusting away; a shifting off; adieu; as, to give a proposal the go-by..

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

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

Dodge :: Dodge (v. i.) To evade a duty by low craft; to practice mean shifts; to use tricky devices; to play fast and loose; to quibble.

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

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.) 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..

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

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

Pouch :: Pouch (n.) A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain, etc., from shifting..

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..

Tergiversate :: Tergiversate (v. i.) To shift; to practice evasion; to use subterfuges; to shuffle.

Sharking :: Sharking (n.) Petty rapine; trick; also, seeking a livelihood by shifts and dishonest devices..

Unshiftable :: Unshiftable (a.) Shiftless; helpless.

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) Something frequently shifted; especially, a woman's under-garment; a chemise..

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

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

Shifter :: Shifter (n.) One who, or that which, shifts; one who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener..

Thimblerig :: Thimblerig (v. t.) To swindle by means of small cups or thimbles, and a pea or small ball placed under one of them and quickly shifted to another, the victim laying a wager that he knows under which cup it is; hence, to cheat by any trick..

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

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