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Shuffle :: Shuffle (v. i.) To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) To divide; to distribute; to apportion.

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

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

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..

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..

Quirk :: Quirk (n.) A sudden turn; a starting from the point or line; hence, an artful evasion or subterfuge; a shift; a quibble; as, the quirks of a pettifogger..

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.

Jibe :: "Jibe (v. i.) To shift, as the boom of a fore-and-aft sail, from one side of a vessel to the other when the wind is aft or on the quarter. See Gybe..

Shark :: Shark (v. i.) To live by shifts and stratagems.

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

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..

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..

Shifting :: Shifting (a.) Adapted or used for shifting anything.

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

Ease :: Ease (n.) To release from pressure or restraint; to move gently; to lift slightly; to shift a little; as, to ease a bar or nut in machinery..

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.

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..

Jibe :: "Jibe (v. i.) To change a ship's course so as to cause a shifting of the boom. See Jibe, v. t., and Gybe..

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

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