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

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) The change of one set of workmen for another; hence, a spell, or turn, of work; also, a set of workmen who work in turn with other sets; as, a night shift..

Tergiversation :: Tergiversation (n.) The act of tergiversating; a shifting; shift; subterfuge; evasion.

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

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

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..

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

Prog :: Prog (v. i.) To wander about and beg; to seek food or other supplies by low arts; to seek for advantage by mean shift or tricks.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) To change the clothing of; -- used reflexively.

Shiff :: Shiff (v. i.) To slip to one side of a ship, so as to destroy the equilibrum; -- said of ballast or cargo; as, the cargo shifted..

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..

Windlass :: Windlass (n.) A winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course; a shift.

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

Whiffle :: Whiffle (v. i.) To waver, or shake, as if moved by gusts of wind; to shift, turn, or veer about..

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