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Smock :: Smock (n.) A woman's under-garment; a shift; a chemise.

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

Switch :: Switch (v. t.) To shift to another circuit.

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..

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

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..

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..

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) The change of one set of workmen for another; hence, a spell, or turn, of work; also, a set of workmen who work in turn with other sets; as, a night shift..

Lurch :: Lurch (v. i.) To dodge; to shift; to play tricks.

Quibble :: Quibble (n.) A shift or turn from the point in question; a trifling or evasive distinction; an evasion; a cavil.

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..

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

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

Shifting :: Shifting (a.) Adapted or used for shifting anything.

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

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..

Shiftingly :: Shiftingly (adv.) In a shifting manner.

Shunt :: Shunt (v. t.) To turn off to one side; especially, to turn off, as a grain or a car upon a side track; to switch off; to shift..

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

Fend :: Fend (v. i.) To act on the defensive, or in opposition; to resist; to parry; to shift off..

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