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

Subterrane :: Subterfuge (n.) That to which one resorts for escape or concealment; an artifice employed to escape censure or the force of an argument, or to justify opinions or conduct; a shift; an evasion..

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

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

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

Double :: Double (n.) A turn or circuit in running to escape pursues; hence, a trick; a shift; an artifice..

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

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

Expedient :: Expedient (n.) Means devised in an exigency; shift.

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

Gybe :: Gybe (v. t. & i.) To shift from one side of a vessel to the other; -- said of the boom of a fore-and-aft sail when the vessel is steered off the wind until the sail fills on the opposite side.

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

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

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

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..

Shiftingly :: Shiftingly (adv.) In a shifting manner.

Pouch :: Pouch (n.) A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain, etc., from shifting..

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

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

Shifting :: Shifting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shif.

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