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   Shuffle , 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.]
   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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   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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   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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   Shuffle, v. i.
   To change the relative position of cards in a pack; as, to shuffle and cut.
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   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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   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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   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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3.       
   Shuffle, n.
   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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   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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