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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SHUF'FLE, v.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.
To shuffle off, to push off; to rid one's self of. When you lay blame to a child, he will attempt to shuffle it off.
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.
SHUF'FLE, v.i.
1. To change the relative position of cards in a pack by little shoves; as, to shuffle and cut.
2. To change the position; to shift ground; to prevaricate; to evade fair questions; to pratice shifts to elude detection.
Hiding my honor in my necessity, I am fain to shuffle. Shak.
3. To struggle; to shift.
Your life, good master,
Must shuffle for itself. Shak.
4. To move with an irregular gait; as a shuffling nag.
5. To shove the feet; to scrape the floor in dancing. [Vulgar.]
SHUF'FLE, n.
1. A shoving, pughing or jostling; the act of mixing and throwing into confusion by change of places.
The unguided agitation and rude shuffles of matter. Bentley.
2. An evasion; a trick; an artifice.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the act of mixing cards haphazardly [syn: shuffle, shuffling, make]
2: walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet; "from his shambling I assumed he was very old" [syn: shamble, shambling, shuffle, shuffling] v
1: walk by dragging one's feet; "he shuffled out of the room"; "We heard his feet shuffling down the hall" [syn: shuffle, scuffle, shamble]
2: move about, move back and forth; "He shuffled his funds among different accounts in various countries so as to avoid the IRS"
3: mix so as to make a random order or arrangement; "shuffle the cards" [syn: shuffle, ruffle, mix]

Merriam Webster's

I. verb (shuffled; shuffling) Etymology: perhaps irregular from ¹shove Date: 1570 transitive verb 1. to mix in a mass confusedly ; jumble 2. to put or thrust aside or under cover <shuffled the whole matter out of his mind> 3. a. to rearrange (as playing cards, dominoes, or tiles) to produce a random order b. to move about, back and forth, or from one place to another ; shift <shuffle funds among various accounts> 4. a. to move (as the feet) by sliding along or back and forth without lifting b. to perform (as a dance) with a dragging, sliding step intransitive verb 1. to work into or out of trickily <shuffled out of the difficulty> 2. to act or speak in a shifty or evasive manner 3. a. to move or walk in a sliding dragging manner without lifting the feet b. to dance in a lazy nonchalant manner with sliding and tapping motions of the feet c. to execute in a perfunctory or clumsy manner 4. to mix playing cards or counters by shuffling • shuffler noun II. noun Date: 1628 1. an evasion of the issue ; equivocation 2. a. an act of shuffling (as of cards) b. a right or turn to shuffle <it's your shuffle> c. a confusing jumble (as of papers or events) <lost in the shuffle> 3. a. a dragging sliding movement; specifically a sliding or scraping step in dancing b. a dance characterized by such a step c. (1) a rhythm where each beat of the measure is played as a triplet with the first and second parts of the triplet tied and the third part accented (2) music played in a shuffle rhythm

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v. 1 tr. & intr. move with a scraping, sliding, or dragging motion (shuffles along; shuffling his feet). 2 tr. a (also absol.) rearrange (a pack of cards) by sliding them over each other quickly. b rearrange; intermingle; confuse (shuffled the documents). 3 tr. (usu. foll. by on, off, into) assume or remove (clothes, a burden, etc.) esp. clumsily or evasively (shuffled on his clothes; shuffled off responsibility). 4 intr. a equivocate; prevaricate. b continually shift one's position; fidget. 5 intr. (foll. by out of) escape evasively (shuffled out of the blame). --n. 1 a shuffling movement. 2 the act or an instance of shuffling cards. 3 a general change of relative positions. 4 a piece of equivocation; sharp practice. 5 a quick scraping movement of the feet in dancing (see also double shuffle). Phrases and idioms: shuffle-board = SHOVELBOARD. shuffle the cards change policy etc. Derivatives: shuffler n. Etymology: perh. f. LG schuffeln walk clumsily f. Gmc: cf. SHOVE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Shuffle 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Shuffle 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(shuffles, shuffling, shuffled) 1. If you shuffle somewhere, you walk there without lifting your feet properly off the ground. Moira shuffled across the kitchen... VERB: V prep/adv • Shuffle is also a noun. She noticed her own proud walk had become a shuffle. N-SING 2. If you shuffle around, you move your feet about while standing or you move your bottom about while sitting, often because you feel uncomfortable or embarrassed. He shuffles around in his chair... He grinned and shuffled his feet. VERB: V prep/adv, V n 3. If you shuffle playing cards, you mix them up before you begin a game. There are various ways of shuffling and dealing the cards. VERB: V n 4. If you shuffle things such as pieces of paper, you move them around so that they are in a different order. The silence lengthened as Thorne unnecessarily shuffled some papers. VERB: V n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. a. Confuse, jumble, mix, shift, intermix, throw into disorder. II. v. n. 1. Prevaricate, quibble, equivocate, cavil, dodge, palter, evade, sophisticate. 2. Struggle, shift, make shift. III. n. Trick, quibble, prevarication, cavil, sophism, evasion, artifice, fraud, shuffling, subterfuge, pretence, pretext, ruse.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

To make use of false pretences, or unfair shifts. A shuffling fellow; a slippery shifting fellow.

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