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

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

Lurch :: Lurch (v. i.) To dodge; to shift; to play tricks.

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

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

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.

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..

Shifting :: Shifting (a.) Changing in place, position, or direction; varying; variable; fickle; as, shifting winds; shifting opinions or principles..

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..

Shiftingly :: Shiftingly (adv.) In a shifting manner.

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) A change of the position of the hand on the finger board, in playing the violin..

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

Faineant :: Faineant (a.) Doing nothing; shiftless.

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

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

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

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

Veer :: Veer (v. i.) To change direction; to turn; to shift; as, wind veers to the west or north..

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..

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

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