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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.

Shifting :: Shifting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shif.

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

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

Shifter :: Shifter (n.) An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.

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

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

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..

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

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

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

Thimblerig :: Thimblerig (v. t.) To swindle by means of small cups or thimbles, and a pea or small ball placed under one of them and quickly shifted to another, the victim laying a wager that he knows under which cup it is; hence, to cheat by any trick..

Lorry :: Lorry (n.) A small cart or wagon, as those used on the tramways in mines to carry coal or rubbish; also, a barrow or truck for shifting baggage, as at railway stations..

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

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

Shopshift :: Shopshift (n.) The trick of a shopkeeper; deception.

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

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.

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..

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