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Shuffle \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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Shuffle \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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Shuffle \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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