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Variable :: Variable (n.) A shifting wind, or one that varies in force..

Dodge :: Dodge (v. i.) To evade a duty by low craft; to practice mean shifts; to use tricky devices; to play fast and loose; to quibble.

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) To change the position of; to alter the bearings of; to turn; as, to shift the helm or sails..

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.

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

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints..

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

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

Shiff :: Shiff (v. i.) To slip to one side of a ship, so as to destroy the equilibrum; -- said of ballast or cargo; as, the cargo shifted..

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sloop :: Sloop (n.) A vessel having one mast and fore-and-aft rig, consisting of a boom-and-gaff mainsail, jibs, staysail, and gaff topsail. The typical sloop has a fixed bowsprit, topmast, and standing rigging, while those of a cutter are capable of being readily shifted. The sloop usually carries a centerboard, and depends for stability upon breadth of beam rather than depth of keel. The two types have rapidly approximated since 1880. One radical distinction is that a slop may carry a centerboard. See

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..

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

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

Chop :: Chop (v. i.) To vary or shift suddenly; as, the wind chops about..

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