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Shifting :: Shifting (a.) Adapted or used for shifting anything.

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

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

Caveating :: Caveating (n.) Shifting the sword from one side of an adversary's sword to the other.

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..

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

Shirk :: Shirk (n.) One who lives by shifts and tricks; one who avoids the performance of duty or labor.

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

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..

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

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

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

Roustabout :: Roustabout (n.) A laborer, especially a deck hand, on a river steamboat, who moves the cargo, loads and unloads wood, and the like; in an opprobrious sense, a shiftless vagrant who lives by chance jobs..

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

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

Chopping :: Chopping (a.) Shifting or changing suddenly, as the wind; also, having tumbling waves dashing against each other; as, a chopping sea..

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

Fend :: Fend (v. i.) To act on the defensive, or in opposition; to resist; to parry; to shift off..

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

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

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