shuffle

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

A man may shuffle cards or rattle dice from noon to midnight without tracing a new idea in his mind. Rombler. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To remove or introduce by artificial confusion. [ 1913 Webster ]

It was contrived by your enemies, and shuffled into the papers that were seizen. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of shuffling; a mixing confusedly; a slovenly, dragging motion. [ 1913 Webster ]

The unguided agitation and rude shuffles of matter. Bentley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A trick; an artifice; an evasion. [ 1913 Webster ]

The gifts of nature are beyond all shame and shuffles. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To change the relative position of cards in a pack; as, to shuffle and cut. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate. [ 1913 Webster ]

I myself, . . . hiding mine honor in my necessity, am fain to shuffle. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To use arts or expedients; to make shift. [ 1913 Webster ]

Your life, good master,
Must shuffle for itself. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing. [ 1913 Webster ]

The aged creature came
Shuffling along with ivory-headed wand. Keats. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To equivicate; prevaricate; quibble; cavil; shift; sophisticate; juggle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Shovelboard. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A play performed by shaking money in a hat or cap. [ R. ] Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]