About The Word Shiff
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Shiff
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What's The Definition Of Shiff?Synonyms | Synonyms for Shiff: Related Terms | Find terms related to Shiff: See Also | Shiff In Webster's Dictionary \Shiff\, v. i.
1. To divide; to distribute. [Obs.]
Some this, some that, as that him liketh shift.
--Chaucer.
2. To make a change or changes; to change position; to move;
to veer; to substitute one thing for another; -- used in
the various senses of the transitive verb.
The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slippered
pantaloon. --Shak.
Here the Baillie shifted and fidgeted about in his
seat. --Sir W.
Scott.
3. To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to
contrive; to manage.
Men in distress will look to themselves, and leave
their companions to schift as well as they can.
--L'Estrange.
4. To practice indirect or evasive methods.
All those schoolmen, though they were exceeding
witty, yet better teach all their followers to
shift, than to resolve by their distinctions. --Sir
W. Raleigh.
5. (Naut.) To slip to one side of a ship, so as to destroy
the equilibrum; -- said of ballast or cargo; as, the cargo
shifted.
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