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.