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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..

Shack :: Shack (n.) A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp..

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) Something frequently shifted; especially, a woman's under-garment; a chemise..

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

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

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..

Shopshift :: Shopshift (n.) The trick of a shopkeeper; deception.

Double :: Double (n.) A turn or circuit in running to escape pursues; hence, a trick; a shift; an artifice..

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

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..

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..

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.

Baffle :: Baffle (v. t.) To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.

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..

Expedient :: Expedient (n.) Means devised in an exigency; shift.

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..

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

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

Shifter :: Shifter (n.) An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions..

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