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

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..

Prog :: Prog (v. i.) To wander about and beg; to seek food or other supplies by low arts; to seek for advantage by mean shift or tricks.

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

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..

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

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

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

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

Machinist :: Machinist (n.) A person employed to shift scenery in a theater.

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

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

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

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

Put-off :: Put-off (n.) A shift for evasion or delay; an evasion; an excuse.

Sharking :: Sharking (n.) Petty rapine; trick; also, seeking a livelihood by shifts and dishonest devices..

Modulation :: Modulation (n.) A change of key, whether transient, or until the music becomes established in the new key; a shifting of the tonality of a piece, so that the harmonies all center upon a new keynote or tonic; the art of transition out of the original key into one nearly related, and so on, it may be, by successive changes, into a key quite remote. There are also sudden and unprepared modulations..

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

Roustabout :: Roustabout (n.) A laborer, especially a deck hand, on a river steamboat, who moves the cargo, loads and unloads wood, and the like; in an opprobrious sense, a shiftless vagrant who lives by chance jobs..

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..

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