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

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

Machinist :: Machinist (n.) A person employed to shift scenery in a theater.

Doubling :: Doubling (n.) A turning and winding; as, the doubling of a hunted hare; shift; trick; artifice..

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

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

Makeshift :: Makeshift (n.) That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient.

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..

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..

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..

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.

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

Palter :: Palter (v. i.) To act in insincere or deceitful manner; to play false; to equivocate; to shift; to dodge; to trifle.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pouch :: Pouch (n.) A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain, etc., from shifting..

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