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Shuffle : (noun)
1: the act of mixing cards haphazardly [syn: 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, shuffling]
(verb)
1: walk by dragging one's feet; "he shuffled out of the room";
"We heard his feet shuffling down the hall" [syn: 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: ruffle, mix]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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