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Shift :: Shift (v. t.) To divide; to distribute; to apportion.

Smock :: Smock (n.) A woman's under-garment; a shift; a chemise.

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..

Shifty :: Shifty (a.) Full of, or ready with, shifts; fertile in expedients or contrivance..

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

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

Tack :: Tack (v. t.) To change the direction of (a vessel) when sailing closehauled, by putting the helm alee and shifting the tacks and sails so that she will proceed to windward nearly at right angles to her former course..

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

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..

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..

Core :: Core (n.) A miner's underground working time or shift.

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

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.

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

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..

Sceneshifter :: Sceneshifter (n.) One who moves the scenes in a theater; a sceneman.

Whiffler :: Whiffler (n.) One who whiffles, or frequently changes his opinion or course; one who uses shifts and evasions in argument; hence, a trifler..

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

Chicane :: Chicane (n.) To use shifts, cavils, or artifices..

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.

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