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Expedient :: Expedient (n.) Means devised in an exigency; shift.

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

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

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..

Core :: Core (n.) A miner's underground working time or shift.

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

Gybe :: Gybe (v. t. & i.) To shift from one side of a vessel to the other; -- said of the boom of a fore-and-aft sail when the vessel is steered off the wind until the sail fills on the opposite side.

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..

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..

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

Shifter :: Shifter (n.) A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc..

Veering :: Veering (a.) Shifting.

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

Shuffle :: Shuffle (v. i.) To use arts or expedients; to make shift.

Sharking :: Sharking (n.) Petty rapine; trick; also, seeking a livelihood by shifts and dishonest devices..

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.

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

Shiftable :: Shiftable (a.) Admitting of being shifted.

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

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