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

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) Something frequently shifted; especially, a woman's under-garment; a chemise..

Shark :: Shark (v. i.) To live by shifts and stratagems.

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..

Shuffle :: Shuffle (v. i.) To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.

Shirk :: Shirk (n.) One who lives by shifts and tricks; one who avoids the performance of duty or labor.

Prevaricate :: Prevaricate (v. i.) To shift or turn from one side to the other, from the direct course, or from truth; to speak with equivocation; to shuffle; to quibble; as, he prevaricates in his statement..

Whiffler :: Whiffler (n.) One who whiffles, or frequently changes his opinion or course; one who uses shifts and evasions in argument; hence, a trifler..

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

Jibe :: "Jibe (v. i.) To change a ship's course so as to cause a shifting of the boom. See Jibe, v. t., and Gybe..

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.

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

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

Shiftiness :: Shiftiness (n.) The quality or state of being shifty.

Sceneshifter :: Sceneshifter (n.) One who moves the scenes in a theater; a sceneman.

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

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

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

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

Shunt :: Shunt (v. t.) The shifting of the studs on a projectile from the deep to the shallow sides of the grooves in its discharge from a shunt gun.

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