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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..

Veering :: Veering (a.) Shifting.

Mucker :: Mucker (v. t.) To scrape together, as money, by mean labor or shifts..

Faineant :: Faineant (a.) Doing nothing; shiftless.

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

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

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..

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

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) To put off or out of the way by some expedient.

Shifter :: Shifter (n.) An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.

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

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

Chemise :: Chemise (n.) A shift, or undergarment, worn by women..

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.

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

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

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.

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

Tergiversate :: Tergiversate (v. i.) To shift; to practice evasion; to use subterfuges; to shuffle.

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

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