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- Shift - v. t. - To divide; to distribute; to apportion.
- Shift - v. t. - To change the place of; to move or remove from one place to another; as, to shift a burden from one shoulder to another; to shift the blame.
- Shift - v. t. - To change the position of; to alter the bearings of; to turn; as, to shift the helm or sails.
- Shift - v. t. - To exchange for another of the same class; to remove and to put some similar thing in its place; to change; as, to shift the clothes; to shift the scenes.
- Shift - v. t. - To change the clothing of; -- used reflexively.
- Shift - v. t. - To put off or out of the way by some expedient.
- Shift - v. t. - The act of shifting.
- Shift - v. t. - The act of putting one thing in the place of another, or of changing the place of a thing; change; substitution.
- Shift - v. t. - Something frequently shifted; especially, a woman's under-garment; a chemise.
- Shift - v. t. - The change of one set of workmen for another; hence, a spell, or turn, of work; also, a set of workmen who work in turn with other sets; as, a night shift.
- Shift - v. t. - In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
- Shift - v. t. - A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
- Shift - v. t. - A change of the position of the hand on the finger board, in playing the violin.
- Shiftable - a. - Admitting of being shifted.
- Shifted - imp. & p. p. - of Shift
- Shifter - n. - One who, or that which, shifts; one who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener.
- Shifter - n. - An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions.
- Shifter - n. - An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.
- Shifter - n. - A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc.
- Shiftiness - n. - The quality or state of being shifty.
- Shifting - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Shift
- Shifting - a. - Changing in place, position, or direction; varying; variable; fickle; as, shifting winds; shifting opinions or principles.
- Shifting - a. - Adapted or used for shifting anything.
- Shiftingly - adv. - In a shifting manner.
- Shiftless - a. - Destitute of expedients, or not using successful expedients; characterized by failure, especially by failure to provide for one's own support, through negligence or incapacity; hence, lazy; improvident; thriftless; as, a shiftless fellow; shiftless management.
- Prog - v. i. - To wander about and beg; to seek food or other supplies by low arts; to seek for advantage by mean shift or tricks.
- Prevaricate - v. i. - To shift or turn from one side to the other, from the direct course, or from truth; to speak with equivocation; to shuffle; to quibble; as, he prevaricates in his statement.
- Dodge - v. i. - To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start.
- Parry - v. t. - To avoid; to shift or put off; to evade.
- Shift - v. t. - To change the place of; to move or remove from one place to another; as, to shift a burden from one shoulder to another; to shift the blame.
- Scene - n. - The decorations and fittings of a stage, representing the place in which the action is supposed to go on; one of the slides, or other devices, used to give an appearance of reality to the action of a play; as, to paint scenes; to shift the scenes; to go behind the scenes.
- Dodge - v. t. - To evade by a sudden shift of place; to escape by starting aside; as, to dodge a blow aimed or a ball thrown.
- Shuffle - v. i. - To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
- Shift - v. t. - To change the position of; to alter the bearings of; to turn; as, to shift the helm or sails.
- Switch - v. t. - To shift to another circuit.
- Chop - v. i. - To vary or shift suddenly; as, the wind chops about.
- Machinist - n. - A person employed to shift scenery in a theater.
- Fend - v. i. - To act on the defensive, or in opposition; to resist; to parry; to shift off.
- Quibble - n. - A shift or turn from the point in question; a trifling or evasive distinction; an evasion; a cavil.
- Gybe - v. t. & i. - To shift from one side of a vessel to the other; -- said of the boom of a fore-and-aft sail when the vessel is steered off the wind until the sail fills on the opposite side.
- Put-off - n. - A shift for evasion or delay; an evasion; an excuse.
- Shift - v. t. - To exchange for another of the same class; to remove and to put some similar thing in its place; to change; as, to shift the clothes; to shift the scenes.
- Ease - n. - To release from pressure or restraint; to move gently; to lift slightly; to shift a little; as, to ease a bar or nut in machinery.