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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..

Shunt :: Shunt (v. t.) To turn off to one side; especially, to turn off, as a grain or a car upon a side track; to switch off; to shift..

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

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

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

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..

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

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

Shuffle :: Shuffle (v. i.) To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Jibe :: "Jibe (v. i.) To change a ship's course so as to cause a shifting of the boom. See Jibe, v. t., and Gybe..

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

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

Shifter :: Shifter (n.) One who, or that which, shifts; one who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener..

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