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Double :: Double (n.) A turn or circuit in running to escape pursues; hence, a trick; a shift; an artifice..

Pouch :: Pouch (n.) A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain, etc., from shifting..

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

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

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) A change of the position of the hand on the finger board, in playing the violin..

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) To put off or out of the way by some expedient.

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

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

Dodge :: Dodge (v. t.) To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place..

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

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

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.

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

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) To change the clothing of; -- used reflexively.

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

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..

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

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..

Quirk :: Quirk (n.) A sudden turn; a starting from the point or line; hence, an artful evasion or subterfuge; a shift; a quibble; as, the quirks of a pettifogger..

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

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