Definition of shift

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

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Shiftless :: Shiftless (a.) Destitute of expedients, or not using successful expedients; characterized by failure, especially by failure to provide for one's own support, through negligence or incapacity; hence, lazy; improvident; thriftless; as, a shiftless fellow; shiftless management..
Sceneshifter :: Sceneshifter (n.) One who moves the scenes in a theater; a sceneman.
Palter :: Palter (v. i.) To act in insincere or deceitful manner; to play false; to equivocate; to shift; to dodge; to trifle.
Shift :: Shift (v. t.) To divide; to distribute; to apportion.
Shift :: Shift (v. t.) To put off or out of the way by some expedient.
Shifter :: Shifter (n.) An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions..
Expedient :: Expedient (n.) Means devised in an exigency; shift.
Shirk :: Shirk (v. i.) To live by shifts and fraud; to shark.
Machinist :: Machinist (n.) A person employed to shift scenery in a theater.
Shifter :: Shifter (n.) A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc..
Baffle :: Baffle (n.) A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture..
Mucker :: Mucker (v. t.) To scrape together, as money, by mean labor or shifts..
Caveating :: Caveating (n.) Shifting the sword from one side of an adversary's sword to the other.
Variable :: Variable (n.) A shifting wind, or one that varies in force..
Shuffle :: Shuffle (v. i.) To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
Shiftable :: Shiftable (a.) Admitting of being shifted.
Faineant :: Faineant (a.) Doing nothing; shiftless.
Baffle :: Baffle (v. t.) To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.
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..
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..
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