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.

Shuf"fle, n. 1. The act of shuffling; a mixing confusedly; a slovenly,

dragging motion.

The unguided agitation and rude shuffles of matter.

Bentley.

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