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

Shirk :: Shirk (v. i.) To live by shifts and fraud; to shark.

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints..

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..

Scene :: Scene (n.) The decorations and fittings of a stage, representing the place in which the action is supposed to go on; one of the slides, or other devices, used to give an appearance of reality to the action of a play; as, to paint scenes; to shift the scenes; to go behind the scenes..

Shiftable :: Shiftable (a.) Admitting of being shifted.

Shifter :: Shifter (n.) A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc..

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..

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.

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.

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

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

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

Dodge :: Dodge (v. i.) To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start..

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..

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

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..

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

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

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