Shāf'fle1, v. i.
v. i. [See SHUFFLE.] To hobble or limp; to shuffle. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
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Shuffle
Shŭf'fle2, v. t.
(shŭf'fl), v. t. [imp. & p. p. SHUFFLED; p. pr. & vb. n. SHUFFLING.] [Dim. of shove. See SHOVE and SCUFFLE.]
- To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another; as, to shuffle money from hand to hand.
- To mix by pushing or shoving; to confuse; to throw into disorder; especially, to change the relative positions of, as cards in the pack.
A man may shuffle cards or rattle dice from noon to midnight, without tracing a new idea in his mind. Rambler. 3. To remove or introduce by artificial confusion. It was contrived by your enemies, and shuffled into the papers that were seized. Dryden. To shuffle off, to push off; to rid one's self of.—To shuffle up, to throw together in haste; to make up or form in confusion or with fraudulent disorder; as, he shuffled up a peace.
Shŭf'fle3, v. i.
v. i. 1. To change the relative position of cards in a pack; as, to shuffle and cut.
Sense 2. To change the position; to shift ground; to prevaricate; to evade fair questions; to practice shifts to elude detection.
I myself, . . . riding my honor in my necessity, am fain to shuffle. Shak.
Sense 3. Hence, to use arts or expedients; to make shift; to struggle.
Your life, good master, Must shuffle for itself. Shak.
Sense 4. [Cf. SHAFFLE.] To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; as, a shuffling nag.
The aged creature came Shuffling along with ivory-headed wand. Keats.
Synonyms—To equivocate; prevaricate; quibble; cavil; evade; sophisticate.
Shŭf'fle4, n.
n. 1. Act of shuffling; act of mixing and throwing into confusion by change of places.
The unguided agitation and rude shuffles of matter. Bentley.
Sense 2. An evasion; a trick; an artifice.