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Shift :: Shift (v. t.) Something frequently shifted; especially, a woman's under-garment; a chemise..

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

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..

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..

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

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..

Shifter :: Shifter (n.) An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions..

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Apology :: Apology (n.) Anything provided as a substitute; a makeshift.

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

Dodge :: Dodge (v. i.) To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start..

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..

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

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

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