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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..

Tergiversation :: Tergiversation (n.) The act of tergiversating; a shifting; shift; subterfuge; evasion.

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

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

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) The act of putting one thing in the place of another, or of changing the place of a thing; change; substitution..

Doubling :: Doubling (n.) A turning and winding; as, the doubling of a hunted hare; shift; trick; artifice..

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.

Whiffle :: Whiffle (v. i.) To waver, or shake, as if moved by gusts of wind; to shift, turn, or veer about..

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

Quibble :: Quibble (n.) A shift or turn from the point in question; a trifling or evasive distinction; an evasion; a cavil.

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

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

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

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..

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

Dodge :: Dodge (v. t.) To evade by a sudden shift of place; to escape by starting aside; as, to dodge a blow aimed or a ball thrown..

Switched :: Switch (n.) A mechanical device for shifting an electric current to another circuit.

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

Apology :: Apology (n.) Anything provided as a substitute; a makeshift.

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