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

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

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..

Palter :: Palter (v. i.) To act in insincere or deceitful manner; to play false; to equivocate; to shift; to dodge; to trifle.

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

Dodge :: Dodge (v. t.) To evade by a sudden shift of place; to escape by starting aside; as, to dodge a blow aimed or a ball thrown..

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

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

Shark :: Shark (v. i.) To live by shifts and stratagems.

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..

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..

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

Baffle :: Baffle (v. t.) To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

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