Shuffle

v. t.	1.	To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another; as, to shuffle money from hand to hand. [imp. & p. p. Shuffled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Shuffling .]
	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. A man may shuffle cards or rattle dice from noon to midnight without tracing a new idea in his mind. - Rombler.
	3.	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.
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.
	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.
n.	1.	The act of shuffling; a mixing confusedly; a slovenly, dragging motion. The unguided agitation and rude shuffles of matter. - Bentley.
	2.	A trick; an artifice; an evasion. The gifts of nature are beyond all shame and shuffles. - L'Estrange.

Noun	1.	shuffle - the act of mixing cards haphazardly Synonyms: make, shuffling
	2.	shuffle - walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet; "from his shambling I assumed he was very old" Synonyms: shamble, shambling, shuffling
Verb	1.	shuffle - walk by dragging one's feet; "he shuffled out of the room"; "We heard his feet shuffling down the hall" Synonyms: scuffle, shamble
	2.	shuffle - move about, move back and forth; "He shuffled his funds among different accounts in various countries so as to avoid the IRS"
	3.	shuffle - mix so as to make a random order or arrangement; "shuffle the cards" Synonyms: mix, ruffle

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