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.
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.
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.