SHUF'FLE, v.t.

1. Properly, to shove one way and the other; to push from one to another; as, to shuffle money from hand to hand.

2. To mix by pushing or shoving; to confuse; to throw into disorder; especially, to change the relatibe positions of cards in the pack.

A man may shuffle cards or rattle dice from noon to midnight, without tracing a new idea in his head. Rambler.

3. To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.

It was contrived by your enemies, and shuffled into the papers that were seized. Dryden.

1. A shoving, pushing or jostling; the act of mixing and throwing into confusion by change of places. The unguided agitation and rude shuffles of matter. – Bentley.
2. An evasion; a trick; an artifice. – L'Estrange.

1. To change the relative position of earl in a pack by little shoves; as, to shuffle and cut.
2. To change the position; to shift ground; to prevaricate; to evade fair questions; to practice shifts to elude detection. Hiding my honor in my necessity, I am fain to shuffle. – Shak.
3. To struggle; to shift. Your life, good master, / Must shuffle for itself. – Shak.
4. To move with an irregular gait; as, a shuffling nag.
5. To shove the feet; to scrape the floor in dancing. [Vulgar.] – Shak.

1. Properly, to shove one way and the other; to push free one to another; as, to shuffle money from hand to hand. – Locke.
2. To mix by pushing or shoving; to confuse; throw into disorder; especially, to change the relative positions of cards in the pack. A man may shuffle cards or rattle dice from noon to Midnight, without tracing a new idea in his mind. – Rambler.
3. To remove or introduce by artificial confusion. It was contrived by your enemies, and shuffled into the papers that were seized. – Dryden. To shuffle off, to push off; to rid one's self of. When you lay blame to a child, he will attempt to shuffle it off. To shuffle up, to throw together in haste; to make up or form in confusion or with fraudulent disorder; as, he shuffled a peace. – Howell.

1. To shove one way and the other] to push from one to another; as, to shuffle money from hand to hand.
2. To change the relative position of cards in a pack; as, to shuffle and cut.
3. The act of shuffling; a mixing confusedly; a slovenly, dragging motion.
   
   

   The unguided agitation and rude shuffles of matter. Bentley.

4. 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.
   
   

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

5. 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.

6. A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
   
   

   The gifts of nature are beyond all shame and shuffles. L'Estrange.

7. To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.
   
   

   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.

8. To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
   
   

   Your life, good master,
   Must shuffle for itself. Shak.

9. 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.