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Shuffling : (noun)
1: walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your
feet; "from his shambling I assumed he was very old"
[syn: shamble, shambling, shuffle]
2: the act of mixing cards haphazardly [syn: shuffle, make]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Shuffling : \Shuf"fling\, a.
1. Moving with a dragging, scraping step. ``A shuffling
nag.'' --Shak.
2. Evasive; as, a shuffling excuse. --T. Burnet.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Shuffling : \Shuf"fling\, v.
In a shuffling manner.
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 (1913)
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