shuffle 
3. To thrust carelessly or at random ; change 
by pushing from place to place; hence, to con- 
fuse; mix; intermingle. 
But anon 
Bids all be let alone ; and calls for books, 
Sho/els Divinity and Poetry, 
Phylosophy and Historical together, 
And throws all by. Brmne, Queen's Exchange, iii. 
4. To put or bring (in, off, out, up, etc.) under 
cover of disorder, or in a confused, irregular, 
or tricky way. 
And she shuffles up a quantity of straw or hay into some 
pretty corner of the barn where she may conveniently lie. 
Hannan* Caveat tor Cursetors, p. 103. 
He shall likewise shuffle her away, 
While other sports are tasking of their minds. 
Shak., M. W. of W., iv. 6. 29. 
To shuffle up a summary proceeding by examination 
without trial of Jury. Bacon. 
I scorn to speak anything to the diminution of these 
little creatures, and should not have minded them had 
they been still shuffled among the crowd. 
Addison, The Tall Club, Spectator, No. 108. 
5. To drag with a slovenly, scraping move- 
ment ; move with a shuffle. 
Men, women, rich and poor, in the cool hours, 
Shuffled their sandals o'er the pavement white, 
Companion'd or alone. Keats, Lamia, i. 
6. To perform with a shuffle. 
I remember the time, for the roots of my hair were stirr'd 
By a shuffled step, by a dead weight trail'd, by a whisper'd 
'right. Tennyson, Maud, i. 
To Shuffle Off, to thrust aside ; put off. 
When we have shuffled of this mortal coil. 
Shak., Hamlet, ill. 1. 67. 
But they thought not of shuffling off upon posterity the 
burden of resistance. Everett, Orations, p. 105. 
II. intrans. 1. To push; shove; thrust one's 
self forward. 
He that shall sit down frightened with that foolery 
Is not worth pity : let me alone to shuffle. 
Fletcher and Shirley, Night- Walker, i. 1. 
You live perpetual in disturbancy ; 
Contending, thrusting, shuffling for your rooms 
Of ease or honour, with impatiency. 
Daniel, Civil Wars, Till. 100. 
2. To mix up cards in a pack, changing their 
5604 
Your life, good master, 
Must shuffle for itself. 
Shak., Cymbeline, v. 5. 105. 
Tom was gradually allowed to shuffle through his lessons 
with less rigor. George Eliot, Mill on the Floss, ii. 4. 
While it was yet two or three hours before daybreak, th 
shunt 
shug- (shujr), iiijrrj. _[Cf. sitf 
call to 
O' ew 

obsolete form 
M 
imtldcr. 
shule, shull, sh61, shul, 11. Dialectal forms of 
xlinul, a co 
. hullent, s 
6. W. Cable, Old Creole Days, p. 265. o f sltalft. 
sleep-forsaken little man arose, shuffled into his garments xlinul, a contracted form of sliorcl. 
and in his stocking-feet sought the corridor. ' shullent, shullet, shult. Obsolete plural forms 
= Syn. i To equivocate, quibble, sophisticate, dodge. shultromt, ~ 
shuffle (shuf'l), n. [< shuffle, P.] 1. A shov- shulwaurs (shuFwftrz),"*".^. A kind of paia- 
ing or pushing; particularly, a thrusting out mas, or long drawers ; also, loose trousers worn 
f place or order; a change producing dis- by Asiatics of both sexes. 
shumact, shumacht, shumackt, . Obsolete 
A goodly huge cabinet, wherein whatsoever singular- spellings of sumac. 
ity, chance, and the shuffle of things hath produced shall shun fshunl r wpr nnflrm nJmnnrrl nnr <tl,,,n 
be sorted and included. n ^f?S2| * ' ' P ret ' a ' K1 PP- < -""", ppr. slum- 
Bacon, Works (ed. Spedding), I. 335. m "9- [<ME. shunnen, shonnen,, shunen, schnimm, 
schunen, scluiiiii'ii.nlionen, schonen, shonien, shon- 
yen, sconnen, scunien, < AS. scunian (not scunian ) 
(pp. "gescuned, geseunned), shun, usually in 
comp. d-scunian, hate, detest, shun, avoid, ac- 
Tlie unguided agitation and rude shuffles of matter. 
Bentley, Sermons. 
2. Specifically, a changing of the order of cards 
in a pack so that they may not fall to the play- 
ers in known or preconcerted order. See shuf- 
fle, v. t., 2. 3. The right or turn of shuffling or 
mixing the cards: as, whose s/wffleisitf 4. A 
varying or undecided course of behavior, usu- 
cuse, on-scunuin, ini-sciiiiian, oH-seconian, on- 
scynian, regard with loathing, fear, or disfavor, 
reject, shun, also irritate; connections uncer- 
tain ; not used in AS. in the physical sense ' go 
aside from,' and for this reason and others 
ally for the purpose of deceiving; equivoca- ' 3m ' an( 
tion; evasion; artifice. prob. not connected with *cynd, hasten, asc#- 
tion; evasion; artifice. 
With a slye shuffle of counterfeit principles chopping 
and changing till hee have glean'd all the good ones out 
of their minds. Milton, On Def. of 1 1 u nib. Remonst, Pref. 
The gifts of nature are beyond all shams and shuffles. 
Sir R. L' Estrange, 
The country had a right to expect a straightforward pol- 
icy instead of the shirk and shuffle which had been foisted 
upon it. Westminster Rev., CXX V. 444. 
5. A slow, heavy, irregular manner of moving; 
an awkward, dragging gait. 6. In dancing, a 
rapid scraping movement of the feet; also, a 
dance in which the feet are shuffled alternately 
over the floor at regular intervals. The double 
shuffle differs from the shuffle in each movement being ex- 
ecuted twice in succession with the same foot. 
The voice.of conscience can he no more heard in this 
continual tumult then the vagient cries of the infant Ju- 
piter amidst the rude shuffles and dancings of the Cretick 
Corybantes. Dr. U. More, Immortal, of Soul, ii. 18. 
positions so that they may fall to the players shuffle-board, M. See shorel-board. 
in irregular and unknown order. Compare I., 2. shuffle-cap (shuf'1-kap), n. A play performed 
by shaking money in a hat or cap. 
Mr. Rodney owns he was a little astonished at seeing 
the Count shuffle with the faces of the cards upwards. 
Walpole, Letters, II. 143. 
The paralytic . . . borrows a friend's hand 
To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort 
Her mingled suits and sequences. 
Cmcper, Task, i. 474. 
3. To move little by little ; shift gradually ; 
shift. 
He lost his money at chuckfarthing, shuffle-cap, and all- 
fours. Arbuthnnt. 
shuffler (shuf 'ler), n. [< shuffle + -eri.] 1. One 
who shuffles, in any sense of the verb. 
Unless he were the greatest prevaricator and shuffler 
imaginable. Waterland, Works, III. 150. 
The stars do wander, 
And have their divers influence ; the elements 
Shuffle into innumerable changes. 
2. Same as raft-duck : so called from its shuf- 
fling over the water. See cut under scaup. 
3. The coot, Fulica americana. [Local, U. S.] 
Shirley, The Traitor, ii. 2. shuffle-SCale (shuf '1-skal), n. A tailors' mea- 
These [tornadoes) did not last long, sometimes not a sure graduated at both ends, each end admitting 
of independent adjustment. E. H. Knight. 
Shufflewing (shuf '1- wing), . The hedge- 
chanter, Accentor moriularis. Macgillivray. See 
cut under accentor. [Local, Eng.] 
1. Moving clum- 
quarter of an hour ; and then the Wind would shuffle about 
to the Southward again, and fall flat calm. 
Dampier, Voyages, I. 79. 
4. To shift to and fro in conduct ; act undecid- 
edly or evasively; hence, to equivocate; pre- shuffling (shuf'ling), p. a. 
varicate; practise dishonest shifts. sily; slovenly. 
I myself sometimes, . . . hiding my honour in mine 
necessity, am fain to shuffle. Shak., M. W. of W., ii. 2. 25. 
If any thing for honesty be gotten, 
Though 't be but bread and cheese, I can be satisfied ; 
If otherwise the wind blow, stiff as I am, 
Yet I shall learn to shuffle. Fleteher, Mad Lover, I. 1. 
You sifted not so clean before, but you shuffle as f oulely 
now. Milton, On Def. of Humb. Remonst. 
The Rajah, after the fashion of his countrymen, shuffled, 
solicited, and pleaded poverty. 
Macaulay, Warren Hastings, shufflingly (shuf 'ling-li), adv. 
5. To move in a slow, irregular, lumbering 
fashion ; drag clumsily or heavily along a sur- 
face; especially, to walk with a slovenly, drag- 
ging, or scraping gait. 
A shoeless soldier there a man might meet 
Leading his monsieur by the arms fast bound ; 
Another his had shackled by the feet, 
Who like a cripple shuffled on the ground. 
Drayton, Battle of Agincourt. 
The boy-bridegroom, shuffling in his pace, 
Now hid awhile and then exposed his face. 
Crabbe, Works, I. 75. 
The aged creature came, 
Shuffling along with ivory-headed wand. 
Keats, Eve of St. Agnes, st. 11. 
6. To shove the feet noisily to and fro on the 
floor or ground ; specifically, to scrape the floor 
with the feet in dancing. 
Passengers blew into their hands, and shuffled in their 
wooden shoes to set the blood agog. 
R. L. Stevenson, Inland Voyage, p. 224. 
7. To proceed awkwardly or with difficulty; 
struggle clumsily or perfunctorily. 
He knew him by his shuffling pace. 
Somenille, The Happy Disappointment. 
2. Evasive; prevaricating, 
shuffling (shuf'ling), n. [Verbal n. of shuffle, 
r.] The act of one who shuffles, in any sense. 
With a little shuffling you may choose 
A sword unbated, and in a pass of practice 
Requite him for your father. 
Shak., Hamlet, iv. 7. 138. 
In a shuffling 
manner; with a shuffle. Especially (a) With an 
irregular, dragging, or scraping gait. 
I may go shufflingly at first, for I was never before walked 
in trammels. Dryden, Spanish Friar, i. 2. 
(6) Undecisively ; evasively ; equivocatingly. 
dan, take away; cf. shunt. But the physical 
sense appears in scoon, sconl, skip, which are 
appar. variants of scun 2 , an unassibilated form 
of shun: see *cwn 2 , scoon, and cf. scoundrel, 
schooner, etc.] I. trans. I. To detest; abhor; 
shrink from. [Obsolete or archaic.] 
Hu ancren owen to hatien ham, and schunien. 
Ancren Biwle, p. 82. 
So let me, if yon do not shudder at me, 
Nor shun to call me sister, dwell with you. 
Tennyson, Guinevere. 
2. To go or keep away from ; keep out of the 
neighborhood of; avoid. 
And jif him wrattheth be ywar and his weye shmije. 
Piers Plowman (B), Prol., 1. 174. 
Which way wilt thou take? 
That I may shun thee, for thine eyes are poison 
To mine, and I am loath to grow in rage. 
Beau, and Fl., Philaster, iv. 2. 
See how the golden groves around me smile, 
That shun the coast of Britain's stormy isle. 
Addison, Letter from Italy. 
3. To try to escape from; attempt to elude, 
generally with success; hence, to evade; escape. 
Weak we are, and cannot shun pursuit. 
Shak., 3 Hen. VI., ii. 3. 13. 
No man of woman born, 
Coward or brave, can shun his destiny. 
Bryant, Iliad, vi. 625. 
4. To refrain from ; eschew; neglect; refuse. 
If I sothe shall saie and shonne side tales. 
Richard the Redcless, iii. 170. 
I have not shunned to declare unto you all counsel of 
God. Acts xx. 27. 
Whose Fingers are too fat, and Nails too coarse, 
Should always shun much Gesture in Discourse. 
Congreve, tr. of Ovid's Art of Love. 
5. To shove; push. Bailey, 1731; Halliwell. 
[Prov. Eng.] 
H.t intrans. 1. To shrink back; fall back; 
retreat. 
Ne no more schoune fore the swape of their scharpe 
suerddes 
Then fore the f aireste flour thatt on the folde growes ! 
Morte Arthure (E. E. T. 8.), 1. 314. 
2. To avoid or evade danger or injury. 
Whether hade he no helme ne hawb[e]rgh nauther, . . . 
Ne no schafte, ne no schelde, to schrnie ne to smyte. 
Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. 8.), I. 206. 
3. To withhold action or participation; re- 
frain, as from doing something. 
It [Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac] is goddis will, it sail be 
myne, 
Agaynste his saande sail I neuer schone. 
York Plays, p. 63. 
Shuncht. v. t. [Avar, of shun.} Same as shun, 5. 
Halliwell. 
The death of Hexam rendering the sweat of the honest , 
man's brow unprofitable, the honest man had shufflingly ShUnlCSS (snuil les), a. [< shun + -less.} Not 
declined to moisten his brow for nothing. to be shunned, escaped, or evaded ; unavoid- 
Dickens, Our Mutual Friend, i. 16. able; inevitable. [Rare.] 
Shuffling-plates (shuf 'ling-plats), n.pl. Inlock- Alone he enter'd 
making, a series of isolated slabs or boards The mortal gate of the city, which he painted 
made to advance in a given plane, then to drop with Anfes destiny. Shak., Cor., ii. 2. lie. 
and return on a lower level beneath another shunner (shun'er), n. [< shun + -er 1 .} One 
set of advancing plates, and then rise to repeat who shuns or avoids. 
the movement. E. H. Knight. 
shug 1 (shug), p. i. ; pret. and pp. shugged, ppr. 
iJutgging. [A var. of sho;/ 1 ; in def. 2 perhaps 
confused with shrtitj : see shoy^ and shrug.} If. 
To crawl ; sneak. 
There I'll shug in and get a noble countenance. Ford. 
2. To shrug; writhe the body, as persons with 
the itch; scratch. Hallitcell. [Prov. Eng.] 
oh, these be Fancy's revellers by night ! . . . 
Diana's motes, that flit in her pale light, 
Shunners of sunbeams in diurnal sloth. 
Hood, Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, st 99. 
shunt (shunt), v. [< ME. shunten, schuiitm, 
schonten, shounten, schounten, schowntcn, start 
aside; prob. a variant (due to some interfer- 
ence, perhaps association with shoten, shetcti, 
shoot, or shutten, shut) of shunden, which is 
