Crossword Dictionary

What's The Definition Of 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.
\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.
\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.