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

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..

Quirk :: Quirk (n.) A sudden turn; a starting from the point or line; hence, an artful evasion or subterfuge; a shift; a quibble; as, the quirks of a pettifogger..

Unshiftable :: Unshiftable (a.) Shiftless; helpless.

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..

Jibe :: "Jibe (v. i.) To shift, as the boom of a fore-and-aft sail, from one side of a vessel to the other when the wind is aft or on the quarter. See Gybe..

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..

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

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

Veer :: Veer (v. i.) To change direction; to turn; to shift; as, wind veers to the west or north..

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

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

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

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

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

Dodge :: Dodge (v. t.) To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place..

Shack :: Shack (n.) A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp..

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

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

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

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