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v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Shucked p. pr. & vb. n. Shucking. ] 1. To deprive of the shucks or husks; as, to shuck walnuts, Indian corn, oysters, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To remove or take off (shucks); hence, to discard; to lay aside; -- usually with off. [ Colloq. ]

“Shucking” his coronet, after he had imbibed several draughts of fire water. F. A. Ober.

He had only been in Africa long enough to shuck off the notions he had acquired about the engineering of a west coast colony. Pall Mall Mag. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Perhaps akin to G. shote a husk, pod, shell. ] 1. A shell, husk, or pod; especially, the outer covering of such nuts as the hickory nut, butternut, peanut, and chestnut. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The shell of an oyster or clam. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who shucks oysters or clams [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Shuddered p. pr. & vb. n. Shuddering. ] [ OE. shoderen, schuderen; akin to LG. schuddern, D. schudden to shake, OS. skuddian, G. schaudern to shudder, schütteln to shake, schütten to pour, to shed, OHG. scutten, scuten, to shake. ] To tremble or shake with fear, horrer, or aversion; to shiver with cold; to quake. “With shuddering horror pale.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The shuddering tennant of the frigid zone. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of shuddering, as with fear. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a shuddering manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The husks and other refuse of rice mills, used to adulterate oil cake, or linseed cake. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]