Hypertext Webster Gateway: "shuffling"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Shuffling \Shuf"fling\, a.
1. Moving with a dragging, scraping step. ``A shuffling
nag.'' --Shak.

2. Evasive; as, a shuffling excuse. --T. Burnet.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Shuffling \Shuf"fling\, v.
In a shuffling manner.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

shuffling
adj : moving about or around; "the milling crowd" [syn: {milling}]
n 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}]


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