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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..

Ease :: Ease (n.) To release from pressure or restraint; to move gently; to lift slightly; to shift a little; as, to ease a bar or nut in machinery..

Dodge :: Dodge (v. i.) To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start..

Baffle :: Baffle (n.) A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture..

Caveating :: Caveating (n.) Shifting the sword from one side of an adversary's sword to the other.

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) The act of shifting.

Tergiversate :: Tergiversate (v. i.) To shift; to practice evasion; to use subterfuges; to shuffle.

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..

Faineant :: Faineant (a.) Doing nothing; shiftless.

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

Chemise :: Chemise (n.) A shift, or undergarment, worn by women..

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

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..

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.

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

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

Windlass :: Windlass (n.) A winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course; a shift.

Shirk :: Shirk (v. i.) To live by shifts and fraud; to shark.

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

Tack :: Tack (v. i.) To change the direction of a vessel by shifting the position of the helm and sails; also (as said of a vessel), to have her direction changed through the shifting of the helm and sails. See Tack, v. t., 4..

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