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Shuf"fle (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shuffled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Shuffling (?).] [Originally the same word as scuffle, and properly a freq. of shove. See Shove, and Scuffle.] 1. To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another; as, to shuffle money from hand to hand.
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2. To mix by pushing or shoving; to confuse; to throw into disorder; especially, to change the relative positions of, as of the cards in a pack.
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A man may shuffle cards or rattle dice from noon to midnight without tracing a new idea in his mind. Rombler.
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3. To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.
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It was contrived by your enemies, and shuffled into the papers that were seizen. Dryden.
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To shuffe off, to push off; to rid one's self of. -- To shuffe up, to throw together in hastel to make up or form in confusion or with fraudulent disorder; as, he shuffled up a peace.
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Shuf"fle, v. i. 1. To change the relative position of cards in a pack; as, to shuffle and cut.
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2. To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
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I myself, . . . hiding mine honor in my necessity, am fain to shuffle. Shak.
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3. To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
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Your life, good master,
Must shuffle for itself. Shak.
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4. To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
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The aged creature came
Shuffling along with ivory-headed wand. Keats.
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Syn. -- To equivicate; prevaricate; quibble; cavil; shift; sophisticate; juggle.
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Shuf"fle, n. 1. The act of shuffling; a mixing confusedly; a slovenly, dragging motion.
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The unguided agitation and rude shuffles of matter. Bentley.
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2. A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
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The gifts of nature are beyond all shame and shuffles. L'Estrange.
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