*shuffle*

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. 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 ]

n. See Shovelboard. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. 1. One who shuffles. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Either one of the three common American scaup ducks. See Scaup duck, under Scaup. [ 1913 Webster ]