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To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another; as, to shuffle money from hand to hand.

See Shovelboard.

,.A play performed by shaking money in a hat or cap. [R.] Arbuthnot.

One who shuffles.

The hedg sparrow. [Prov. Eng.]

fically applied to legal proceedings; trickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry. Prior. To shuffle from them by chicane. Burke. To cut short this, I propound it fairly to your own canscience. Berkeley.

The process of dealing cards to the players; also, the portion disturbed. The deal, the shuffle, and the cut. Swift.

sists of the sulphate of aluminium, and the sulphate of potassium or ammonium. -- Double shuffle, a low, noisy dance. -- Double standard (Polit. Econ.), a double standard of monetary values; i. e., a gold standard and a silver standard, both of which are made legal tender. -- Double star (Astron.), two stars so near…

eaving the fear of God on the left hand and hiding mine honor in my necessity, am fain to shuffle, to hedge and to lurch. Shak.

To dodge; to shift; to play tricks. I . . . am fain to shuffle, to hedge, and to lurch. Shak.

- To make bold, to take the liberty; to venture. -- To make the cards (Card Playing), to shuffle the pack. -- To make choice of, to take by way of preference; to choose. -- To make danger, to make experiment. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl. -- To make default (Law), to fail to appear or answer. -- To make the doors, to shut th…

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. He prevaricates with his own understanding. South.

ck; the lesser scaup duck (A. affinis), called also little bluebill, river broadbill, and shuffler; the tufted, or ring-necked, scaup duck (A. collaris), called also black jack, ringneck, ringbill, ringbill shuffler, etc. See Illust. of Ring-necked, under Ring- necked. The common European scaup, or mussel, duck (A.mari…

To scuff or shuffle along. [Scot.]

To walk without lifting the feet; to proceed with a scraping or dragging movement; to shuffle.

To hobble or limp; to shuffle. [Obs. or Prov.Eng.]

To walk awkwardly and unsteadily, as if the knees were weak; to shuffle along.

iving pieces of metal or money to reach certain marks; also, the game itself. Called also shuffleboard, shoveboard, shovegroat, shovelpenny.

teen cards bearing a particular emblem, as hearts, spades, cubs, or diamonds. To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort Her mingled suits and sequences. Cowper.

To shift; to practice evasion; to use subterfuges; to shuffle. [R.] Bailey.