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Webster 1913 Edition

Shuffle

Shuf′fle

,
Verb.
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

,
Verb.
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
.
Shakespeare
3.
To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
Your life, good master,
Must
shuffle
for itself.
Shakespeare
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

,
Noun.
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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Shuffle

SHUF'FLE

,
Verb.
T.
1. Properly, 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 relatibe positions of cards in the pack.
A man may shuffle cards or rattle dice from noon to midnight, without tracing a new idea in his head. Rambler.
3. To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.
It was contrived by your enemies, and shuffled into the papers that were seized. Dryden.

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