<B>shuffle, </B>verb, <B>-fled,</B> <B>-fling,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to walk without lifting the feet. <BR> <I>Ex. The old man shuffles feebly along. The bear ... comes ... shuffling along at a strange rate (Daniel Defoe).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to dance with scraping motions of the feet. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) to act or answer in a tricky way. <BR> <I>Ex. He said and unsaid, sighed, sobbed, beat his breast, shuffled, implored, threatened (James A. Froude).</I> (SYN) dodge, equivocate, quibble. <DD><B> 4. </B>to get (through) somehow; do hurriedly or perfunctorily. <BR> <I>Ex. to shuffle through one's lessons.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>to get (into clothing) in a clumsy or fumbling manner. <DD><B> 6. </B>to divide a deck of cards and, by distributing one half into the other, to mix them into random order. <BR> <I>Ex. They draw, they sit, they shuffle, cut and deal (George Crabbe).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to scrape or drag (the feet). <DD><B> 2. </B>to perform (a dance or dance step) with such motions. <DD><B> 3. </B>to mix (a deck of cards) so as to change the order. <DD><B> 4. </B>to put or throw (together) in a mass indiscriminately, incongruously, or without order; huddle or jumble together. <BR> <I>Ex. Good days, bad days so shuffled together (Charles Lamb).</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>to push about; thrust or throw with clumsy haste. <BR> <I>Ex. He shuffled on his clothes and ran out of the house.</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>to move about this way and that; shift about. <BR> <I>Ex. to shuffle a stack of papers on one's desk.</I> <DD><B> 7. </B>(Figurative.) to put or bring in a tricky way. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a scraping or dragging movement of the feet. <BR> <I>Ex. When the hobble had a second life from 1908 to 1914 skirts appeared to clip the ankles, walking became a kind of shuffle or glide (London Times).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a dance or dance step with a shuffle. <BR> <I>Ex. ... a powerhouse rhythm section which divides itself between a two-beat calypso and a hot-blooded shuffle (Time).</I> <DD><B> 3a. </B>a shuffling of a deck of cards. <DD><B> b. </B>the right or turn to shuffle (cards). <DD><B> 4. </B>a movement this way and that. <BR> <I>Ex. After a hasty shuffle of his papers, the speaker began to talk.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>(Figurative.) an unfair act; trick; evasion. <BR> <I>Ex. Through some legal shuffle he secured a new trial.</I> (SYN) subterfuge. <BR><I>expr. <B>shuffle off,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>to get rid of. </I> <I>Ex. When we have shuffled off this mortal coil ... (Shakespeare). [They] are obliged for propriety's sake to shuffle off the anxious inquiries of the public (Thackeray).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>to proceed to go to. <BR> <I>Ex. to shuffle off to the seashore.</I> <DD><B> c. </B>(Figurative.) to die. <BR> <I>Ex. I mean in plain English that I am likely to shuffle off long before you kick the bucket (Atlantic).</I> </DL>
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<B>shuffleboard, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>a game in which players use long wooden sticks to push large wooden or iron disks so that they slide along a flat surface into various numbered spaces. Shuffleboard is often played on the deck of a ship. <DD><B> b. </B>the surface on which it is played. <DD><B> 2a. </B>a former game in which pieces of money or counters were driven by the hand toward certain compartments or lines marked on a table; shovehalfpenny. <DD><B> b. </B>the board or table used in this game. Also, <B>shovelboard.</B> </DL>
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<B>shuffler, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person or thing that shuffles. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) an evasive person. <DD><B> 3. </B><B>=scaup duck.</B> </DL>
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<B>shuffling, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>moving the feet over the ground or floor without lifting them, or characterized by such movement. <BR> <I>Ex. Sounds like the shuffling steps of those that bear Some heavy thing (William Morris).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) shifty or evasive, as persons or their actions. <BR> <I>Ex. her shuffling excuses (Jane Austen).</I> adv. <B>shufflingly.</B> </DL>
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<B>shul</B> or <B>shule, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Yiddish.) a synagogue. <BR> <I>Ex. "You mean church, Sergeant." "I mean shul, Grossbart!" (Philip Roth).</I> </DL>
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<B>Shulamite</B> or <B>Shulammite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the epithet of the woman beloved in the Song of Solomon 6:13. </DL>
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<B>Shuman process,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a process of making wire glass, invented by Frank Shuman of Philadelphia. It consists of rolling one sheet of glass, into which a wire mesh or netting is pressed and rolled. </DL>
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<B>shun, </B>transitive verb, <B>shunned,</B> <B>shunning.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to keep away from because of dislike; avoid. <BR> <I>Ex. to shun a person. She was lazy and shunned work. He shunned uttering a direct falsehood, but did not scruple to equivocate (George Bancroft).</I> noun <B>shunner.</B> </DL>
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<B>Shunammite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an inhabitant of the town of Shunem in ancient Palestine (in the Bible, I Kings 1:3). </DL>
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<B>shunless, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that cannot be shunned; inevitable. </DL>
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<B>shunpike, </B>noun, verb, <B>-piked,</B> <B>-piking.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Especially U.S. Informal.) <DD><I>noun </I> a road taken by travelers, originally, to avoid paying the toll on a turnpike, but now more frequently, to avoid major highways. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to travel by shunpike. <BR> <I>Ex. Besides making long trips at high speed, motorists could ... "shunpike" on quiet back roads (Stacy V. Jones).</I> </DL>
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<B>shunpiker, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Especially U.S. Informal.) a person who shunpikes. <BR> <I>Ex. Smooth roads, signposts, beautiful scenery--what more could a shunpiker want? (Saturday Review).</I> </DL>
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<B>shunt, </B>verb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1a. </B>to switch (a train) from one track to another. <BR> <I>Ex. The car was uncoupled from the rest of the train and shunted into a siding (London Times).</I> (SYN) deflection. <DD><B> b. </B>to switch (anything) to another route or place. <BR> <I>Ex. After the mixture ... is ground, a small blower shunts the feed to the top of the crib (Wall Street Journal).</I> (SYN) deflection. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) <DD><B> a. </B>to push aside or out of the way; sidetrack. <BR> <I>Ex. My mind has been shunted off upon the track of other duties (James Russell Lowell).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>to get rid of. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Electricity.) to carry (a part of a current) by means of a shunt. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Medicine.) to divert (blood) by using a shunt. <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>(of a train) to move from one line of rails to another. <DD><B> 2. </B>to move out of the way; turn aside. <BR> <I>Ex. Trucks shunt ... unceasingly, the drivers ... displaying something like wizardry in maneuvering them through perennial traffic jams (Bulletin of Atomic Scientists).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the act of turning aside; shift. <DD><B> 2. </B>a railroad switch. <DD><B> 3. </B>a wire or other conductor, joining two points in an electric circuit and forming a path through which a part of the current may pass; bypass. It is usually of relatively low resistance. Shunts are used to regulate the amount of current passing through the main circuit. <BR> <I>Ex. However, by inserting a low resistance shunt in parallel with the pivoted coil ... any galvanometer may be modified to serve as an ammeter or voltmeter (Sears and Zemansky).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Medicine.) <DD><B> a. </B>communication between blood vessels; anastomosis. <BR> <I>Ex. Shunts ... had previously been detected by having the patient breathe a mixture of the gas nitrous oxide and tracing its course through the circulatory system (Science News Letter).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>an artificial pathway or connection formed to divert the blood from its normal channels. <BR> <I>Ex. In the new use of this arteriovenous shunt for radiation treatment, the permanent tubes in the arm are simply connected to a length of plastic tubing that leads the blood beyond the body to the radiation source and back (New York Times).</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>(U.S. Slang.) a crash between cars in an automobile race. noun <B>shunter.</B> </DL>
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<B>shunt dynamo</B> or <B>generator,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a shunt-wound generator. </DL>
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<B>shunt motor,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a shunt-wound motor. <BR> <I>Ex. If the armature and the field windings are connected in series we have a series motor; if they are connected in parallel, a shunt motor (Sears and Zemansky).</I> </DL>
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<B>shunt winding,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Electricity.) a winding of a motor or generator whereby the field magnet coils are connected in parallel with the armature. </DL>
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<B>shunt-wound, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Electricity.) that hasshunt winding. <BR> <I>Ex. a shunt-wound motor.</I> </DL>
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<B>shure, </B>verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Scottish.) sheared; a past tense of <B>shear.</B> </DL>
