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.
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.
A man may shuffle cards or rattle dice from noon
to midnight without tracing a new idea in his mind.
Rombler.
3. To remove or introduce by artificial
confusion.
It was contrived by your enemies, and shuffled
into the papers that were seizen.
Dryden.
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.
Shuf"fle, v. i. 1.
To change the relative position of cards in a pack; as, to
shuffle and cut.
2. To change one's position; to shift ground;
to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to
prevaricate.
I myself, . . . hiding mine honor in my necessity, am
fain to shuffle.
Shak.
3. To use arts or expedients; to make
shift.
Your life, good master,
Must shuffle for itself.
Shak.
4. To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to
drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
The aged creature came
Shuffling along with ivory-headed wand.
Keats.
Syn. -- To equivicate; prevaricate; quibble; cavil; shift;
sophisticate; juggle.
Shuf"fle, n. 1. The
act of shuffling; a mixing confusedly; a slovenly, dragging
motion.
The unguided agitation and rude shuffles of
matter.
Bentley.
2. A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
The gifts of nature are beyond all shame and
shuffles.
L'Estrange.
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.
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.
A man may shuffle cards or rattle dice from noon
to midnight without tracing a new idea in his mind.
Rombler.
3. To remove or introduce by artificial
confusion.
It was contrived by your enemies, and shuffled
into the papers that were seizen.
Dryden.
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.
Shuf"fle, v. i. 1.
To change the relative position of cards in a pack; as, to
shuffle and cut.
2. To change one's position; to shift ground;
to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to
prevaricate.
I myself, . . . hiding mine honor in my necessity, am
fain to shuffle.
Shak.
3. To use arts or expedients; to make
shift.
Your life, good master,
Must shuffle for itself.
Shak.
4. To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to
drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
The aged creature came
Shuffling along with ivory-headed wand.
Keats.
Syn. -- To equivicate; prevaricate; quibble; cavil; shift;
sophisticate; juggle.
Shuf"fle, n. 1. The
act of shuffling; a mixing confusedly; a slovenly, dragging
motion.
The unguided agitation and rude shuffles of
matter.
Bentley.
2. A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
The gifts of nature are beyond all shame and
shuffles.
L'Estrange.
