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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..

Shifter :: Shifter (n.) An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions..

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

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

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

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

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..

Shunt :: Shunt (v. t.) To turn off to one side; especially, to turn off, as a grain or a car upon a side track; to switch off; to shift..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) To put off or out of the way by some expedient.

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